“Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.”

You can’t run a business without taking risks. The brave may not live forever – but the cautious do not live at all!

Brave people don’t live forever, but cautious people don’t live at all.

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies.

Breaking the rules and challenging convention is in the DNA of every successful entrepreneur.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity.

Innovation happens when people are given the freedom to ask questions and the resources and power to find the answers.

Unless you dream, nothing will happen. If you dream, you might be able to make your dreams come true.

Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

There is so much to be learned from listening to people’s hopes, frustrations, and points of view.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‘Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.’

There are no quick wins in business – it takes years to become an overnight success.

The amount of time people waste dwelling on failures rather than putting that energy into another project, always amazes me.

I am convinced that companies should put staff first, customers second and shareholders third – ultimately that’s in the best interest of customers and shareholders.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

If you take care of your workers they’ll take care of your business.

Throwing yourself into a job you enjoy is one of the life’s greatest pleasures!

A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

A tolerable expertness in military movements is a business that requires time and practice. It is not a day, or even a week, that will suffice for the attainment of it.

Think ahead. Don’t let day-to-day operations drive out planning.

There are resources to help and simple steps that parents, preschools, businesses, and communities can take to help our kids succeed, because we’re all in this together, and that’s what the Too Small to Fail Initiative is all about.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.

My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in.