All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business

Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.

I think that my original drive as an entrepreneur was precisely that desire to get away from the image of the shipping magnate's son.

You can divide airlines into two camps: expensive and cheap. But I believe that we will only distinguish between long-haul and short-haul airlines in the future.

This industry attracts more capital than it deserves.

Unfortunately I have no rags-to-riches story to tell. Money never played a big role for me. My parents just had it.

When I opened the world's largest Internet cafe, certified by the 'Guinness Book of Records, ' in Times Square in New York, I was live on 'Good Morning America, ' and for me, that was an achievement.

The world of books, the greatest possessions.

The problem, of course, is that there's no way of knowing that your last good day is your Last Good Day. At the time, it's just another good day.

Envy is a buzz killer."~R. Alan Woods [2013]

Insider trading by hedge funds has a long and distinguished history, dating to the days when people didn't know that there was such a thing as a hedge fund.

A less popular name for the Second Person of that delectable newspaper Trinity, the Roomer, the Bedder, and the Mealer.

Just breathe. Sometimes you're only a few breaths away from feeling better.

They say they don't know when but a day is gonna come. When there won't be a moon and there won't be a sun. It will just go black. It will just go back to the way it was before.

The same dynamics that promote performance also support learning and behavioral change.

At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.

Football is potential post-career suicide.