Making the extra effort to say thanks in a genuine, personal manner goes a long way. It is pleasurable to do, and it encourages more of the same good behavior.

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.

Always take responsibility for the social life of the people

Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are.

Yesterday he had limped, but today there was no part of his feet that didn't hurt, so limping did no good.

Basically, I got into stand-up because I'm too egocentric to be an actor and not disciplined enough to be a writer.

Of all the well-meant emotions pity is the cruelest to share.

The most important thing is to find people that you enjoy - friends that you enjoy playing music with.

I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.

I've never wanted to become a politician, an interior decorator, I've never wanted to speculate and make a load of money. I just wanted this.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It's a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question. Sometimes, more actually gets said through such a technique than a full frontal assault.