My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I've felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people's lives better.
If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.
All you have in business is your reputation - so it's very important that you keep your word.
My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.
The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gauran...
Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredients in any successful venture. If you're not having fun, then it's probably time to call it quits and try something else.
A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren't proud of what you're doing, why should anybody else be?
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money...
One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.
The first thing that has to be recognized is that one cannot train someone to be passionate--it's either in their DNA or it's not.
The balloons only have one life and the only way of finding out whether they work is to attempt to fly around the world.
You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.
Screw it. Let's do it.
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.
The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.
The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'
I love Africa, and Ulusaba, our home in South Africa, is pretty special. It's on a rocky hill overlooking the bush, and from your room, you can see lions stalking zebras by the waterhole.
Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
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