You've got to take risks if you're going to succeed. I would much rather ask forgiveness than permission.

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.

Being immortal is grand and all but I don't really remember half of what I did. The human brain was not made to hold this much information. So it doesn't.

It took me a long time and a lot of heartache to realize that just because you love someone, doesn’t mean they deserve it.

As an actress, I have put myself out there as an independent black woman, a single mom, a go-getter, a hustler who isn't afraid to survive.

Writing down everything I eat makes such a difference, because you never realize how much you're consuming unless you read it later in the day.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

My early films were about self discovery, and films of internal conflict. At that level, they were very personal.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

Not only in the creative world but also in the sports world. The most successful achievers in sports are people that are really driven and have that spirit of hunger.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

There are a lot of good actors, and writers out there.