Half the art of ballooning is to make your crashes so gentle that you can fool yourself into calling them landings.
If you want to stand out from the crowd, give people a reason not to forget you.
Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you’re going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into.
Two heads are definitely better than one and by brainstorming as a team and sourcing ideas from each other, you have a better chance of coming up with a strategy that will allow your business to overcome a setback or challenge.
Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.
Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
It’s really important to find an hour or two to a day to make sure that you keep healthy, keep fit. It’s very easy just to forget that aspect. And if you’re feeling really good and fit, I think you can get two or three extra hours a day of hard work in as well.
Communicate your passion clearly, concisely and with genuine conviction.
If you find yourself stuck in the middle there is only one way to go, forward.
People do not mind people who try things and fail. If you’re a good entrepreneur, you’re not going to succeed in every single thing you try. You’ve got to try to succeed at more things than fail.
If you get into business solely to make money, you won’t. If you try to make a real difference, you’ll find success.
Only a fool never changes his mind.
You can create a business, choose a name, but unless people know about it you’re not going to sell any products.
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel.
I think in life the key thing is just to fight really hard to make sure something survives. If it looks like you’ve done everything you can to avoid failure, just move forward, move on and learn from it.
The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
An exceptional company is the one that gets all the little details right.
The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity.
Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur. Doing things differently and solving problems with new, innovative and fresh approaches are the very reason many start-ups are able to compete and sometimes outpace the established market leaders.