Be swift to take advantage of business opportunities. Bigger companies are too cumbersome to move quickly; this can be a competitive advantage for you.

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.

The truth is hidden in books.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

Republics, like individuals, who are benefited by personal sacrifices, are proverbially ungrateful.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

Politicians live in little worlds of their own and imagine these are the universe.

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

The first question in any interactive process with another is: now Who Am I, and Who Do I Want to Be, in relationship to that?

Poets use metaphors and symbolism to construct images. I construct my images in the same way, except that I am using a different form.

Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.