When you are ready to make your first hires, look for people who understand your passion, want to add to your ideas and can envision ways to make improvements.

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don't want to.

If you look after your staff, they'll look after your customers. It's that simple.

Listen more than you talk. Nobody learned anything by hearing themselves speak.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

Never take your eyes off the cash flow because it's the life blood of business.

If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough.

I'm focused on being the best, making history.

Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said of Mahatma Gandhi)

When you think life is tough, it can get a lot tougher.

As a grandmother, I've learned that you can't buy love. But your grandchildren are disappointed when you don't try.

Drums, bass, guitar, keys, I play a little of each of those.

It's like standing on the edge of a cliff. This is especially true of the first draft. Every day you're making up the earth you're going to stand on.

The obstacle is the path.

I have two pairs of reading glasses. One pair is for reading fiction, the other for non-fiction. I've read the Bible twice wearing each pair, and it's the same.

Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

Empirical laws [...] have only slight or even no value beyond the limits within which they have been observed to be true.