One thing is certain in business. You and everyone around you will make mistakes.

For some reason, I have better luck when I work with women. I guess I have a good sense of sisterhood.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

The U.N. bureaucracy has grown to elephantine proportions. Now that the Cold War is over, we are asking that elephant to do gymnastics.

Everybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.

Before I look stupid and not know what a word means or how to pronounce it, I’ll stop the whole production: ‚Hey, real quick, guys. Define this word for me. Somebody.‘

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.

One thing I’ve always loved about the culture at Microsoft is there is nobody who is tougher on us, in terms of what we need to learn and do better, than the people in the company itself. You can walk down these halls, and they’ll tell you, ‚We need to do usability better, push this or that frontier.‘

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox.

Honor thy error as a hidden intention.

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.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

If you don’t feel safe as a child, you can’t learn.

Every wall is a door.

A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

War is the business of barbarians.

There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving – by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

My life as a child did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

Every time I get in the McLaren I feel more comfortable, my confidence increases and I feel more at home with the team.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

Get someone else to blow your horn and the sound will carry twice as far.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

I think a role model is a mentor – someone you see on a daily basis, and you learn from them.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.

When you write your first book aged 25 or so, you have 25 years of experience, albeit much of it juvenile experience. The second book comes after an extra year sitting in bookshops. Pretty soon, you begin to run on empty.

Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

The amount of trust and bandwidth that you build up working with someone for five, seven, 10 years? It’s just awesome. I care about openness and connectedness in a global sense.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

Nothing stands out so conspicuously, or remains so firmly fixed in the memory, as something which you have blundered.

I want to play a fireman and a spy. I want to learn special effects.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

Fires can’t be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.