When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.

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.

Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.

Omnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.

My father never lived to see his dream come true of an all-Yiddish-speaking Canada.

Stop all this weeping, swallow your pride/ You will not die, its not poison -Tombstone Blues

Without a doubt, my richest relationships are my long-term friendships with musical partners, because we make music together. That's what we love to do with our lives.

I don't think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.

Life was a fool's errand, carrying news to the worms.

We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our environment and securing a sustainable future for us all

I'd much rather have a book that a few people love intensely than a book that a lot of people like okay.

The summer that I was ten - Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must have been a long one then.