The three most dreaded words in the English language are 'negative cash flow'.

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

I've always wanted to go to Timbuktu. First of all I think it has the best name of anywhere in the world.

Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

Twitter is very impulsive and impermanent and you only have 140 characters. There is no greater 'Emperor' of Twitter than Stephen Fry.

About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.

I can't establish the veracity of what people say because only they know whether they are telling the truth. I can't look into your mind, can I?

Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

The beauty of the Internet is that there's no space limit.

The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them.

It was something of a personal challenge for me to come up with a business suitable for the Internet world and the Internet age.

Oh God, can I keep you? You don’t need batteries, do you?

I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don't know what they're talking about.

In music, you learn a lot of things when you don't know what you're doing.

An awful lot of people keep a stock too long because it gives them warm fuzzies – particularly when a contrarian stance has been vindicated. If they sell it, they lose bragging rights.

Mental health problems do not affect three or four out of every five persons, but one out of one.

I'm a big believer of having a vision board, so I have a vision board, and that's motivating because it shows me all the things I have accomplished and all the things I still want to accomplish.

This is for all the little Stingers

Businesses are not paid to reform customers. They are paid to satisfy customers.

For the most part, there's so much of me in my characters.

Style is a celebratory expression of your life force. You must approach it with a sense of joie de vivre.