Free publicity and word of mouth is probably the best and cheapest form of advertising. Learn to use it to your advantage.

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.

One of Sir Topher's rules was to never indulge in sentimentality, never return for what was left behind.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

There's not a hair extension or a makeup artist that can make me feel the way I feel when i give back

In the battle between planning and action, action wins.

The audiences certainly have declined. If I go to the theatre now I find people come there to eat and smoke and talk to one another. And look like scarecrows.

The soul is often hungrier than the body and no shop can sell it food.

You can’t be a great leader if all you are serving is yourself.

It is my children who have made all this possible. My children are my wealth; they are my strength.

Somebody will be upset and say I got rich and deserted my female people; No offense, but the only black woman I ever loved is my mama.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.