Occupation: Business Magnate Birth: July 18, 1950
The jet stream is a very strong force and pushing a balloon into it is like pushing up against a brick wall, but once we got into it, we found that, ….
So I've seen life as one long learning process. And if I see - you know, if I fly on somebody else's airline and find the experience is not a pleasan….
A business is simply an idea to make other people's lives better..
All good leaders listen to their people and empower them to go away and turn any innovative ideas they have into a reality..
Perhaps, therefore, it is odd that if there is any one phrase that is guaranteed to set me off it's when someone says to me, 'OK, fine. You're the bo….
Those people who spend their time working on things they love are usually the ones enjoying life the most. They are also the ones who dared to take a….
If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you..
Commitment is not letting people down. That's very important in life..
I love creating things, and as an entrepreneur, I've taken on quite a lot of major corporations and done well. Capitalism is the only system that wor….
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 have always believed that personal relationships are vital in business and that people should be directly accountable for their actions..
Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow.
Always think, 'what's the worst that can happen' and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.
If people aren't calling you crazy, you aren't thinking big enough..
Whatever business you are in, every company can shoot for the start in their own way..
Develop the business around the people; build it, don't buy it; and, then, be the best..
I have always lived my life by making lists: lists of people to call, lists of ideas, lists of companies to set up, lists of people who can make thin….
If people are jumping down people's throats all the time, in the end, they'll just shrivel up like a flower shrivels up that's not watered..
Rather than getting nostalgic...embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now..
Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers..
Explore this next great frontier where the boundaries between work and higher purpose are merging into one, where doing good really is good for busin….