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I'm a great believer in life to saying yes and not saying no, and hopefully making people smile and just having fun in life.
You shouldn't be looking for people slipping up, you should be looking for all the good things people do and praising those.
There's usually room in the theme parks business for efficiencies on the cost side and new investment, which drives traffic.
Don’t sleep too much. If you sleep 3 hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
There is no question about that. Business is my hobby. It is not a burden to me. In any case Reliance now can run without me.
The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.
All successful people - not just entrepreneurs - have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.
It's obviously incredibly important to keep the body fit in order to keep the mind fit, and be able to find time for friends.
To kill a man will be considered as disgusting [in the twentieth century] as we in this day consider it disgusting to eat one.
I am a believer in trying to treat people properly and trying to respond and making sure that I find the time to be courteous.
Customers shouldn't just think of your business as a place to buy a product or use a service - it should be a fun place to be.
Two bricklayers work side by side. The first lays bricks. The second builds magnificent cathedrals. Think small vs. think big.
In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.
I think it's good for a woman to put on a bit of weight when she gets older - it looks better. But a man has to stay balanced.
My favorite mode of transport is hot-air ballooning. It's so graceful to be blown by the wind, to go where the wind takes you.
I never thought about becoming wealthy. It never crossed my mind. What really motivated me was to try to accomplish something.
Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.
What works for Germany can't work for the rest of Europe: No country can run a chronic surplus without others running deficits.
You could adjust the punishment to fit the infraction. Even a small fine would be enough to bring an errant government to heel.
Sometimes time actually works against you if you refuse to face the relevant issues and explain to the public what is at stake.
For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.
Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.
I love eating meat, but I love our planet even more. So I will join this campaign and stop eating meat at least one day a week.
Well, I'm somebody who is just living ...living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.
I have had fun running all of the Virgin businesses, so I never see a setback as a bad experience; it is just a learning curve.
I just didn't like the way we were, in my opinion, being unfairly attacked. I just decided to do what was right for our family.
After years of studying French in school, one of my professors said he'd really appreciate it if I didn't take any more French.
One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.
Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not - I didn't qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
I called gold the ultimate bubble, which means it may go higher. But it’s certainly not safe and it’s not going to last forever.
Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.
It's clear that it is in the best interest of business to be part of the conservation, along with governments and civil society.
Being a good listener is absolutely critical to being a good leader; you have to listen to the people who are on the front line.
Don't be content with doing only your duty. Do more than your duty. It's the horse that finishes a neck ahead that wins the race.
Don't sleep too much. If you sleep three hours less each night for a year, you will have an extra month and a half to succeed in.
It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality as distorted by a misconception.
Most of the poverty and misery in the world is due to bad government, lack of democracy, weak states, internal strife, and so on.
I don't know another Philippine company that has lasted three generations, except for Ayala. Maybe Aboitiz is going to the third.
During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures.
Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions.
Niklas Zennstroem has a thorough background as a successful entrepreneur with extensive expertise in areas such as IT and online.
Not evil, but good, has come to the race from the accumulation of wealth by those who have the ability and energy that produce it.
I believe in the power of great art to transcend geographical boundaries, political differences and even the restrictions of time.
When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don't want it built like that. It's quite embarrassing.