Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

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.

For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.

Follow your passion, be prepared to work hard and sacrifice, and, above all, don't let anyone limit your dreams

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds.

If a pickpocket meets a Holy Man, he will see only His pockets.

Impact lies in the vicinity of mistakes.

A political satirist's job is to draw blood. I'm not so much interested in politics as I am in overthrowing the government.

Home has become such a scattered, damaged, various concept in our present travails. There is so much to yearn for. There are so few rainbows any more.