I will work day and night to avoid failure, but if I can't, I'll pick myself up the next day. The most important thing for entrepreneurs is not to be put off by failure.

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.

On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.

Since to follow a trail is to remember how it goes, making one's way in the present is itself a recollection of the past...onward movement is itself a return.

Never say: "Who cares?!" Because there's always someone that cares. You.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

My goal is to share all my learning, all of my knowledge, so that other generations of martial arts will benefit.

Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers.

Love is the greatest light, the brightest torch, and will always be the greatest instrument of change.

Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade.