“Your company should act as a springboard for ambitious employees, not a set of shackles.”

No failure means no risk, which means nothing new.

Learn to look after your staff first and the rest will follow.

I have always believed that there is no point in having regrets as you learn far more from mistakes than successes. Embrace a mistake and learn from it; don’t regret them.

If you’re looking to become an entrepreneur then don’t waste your time going to university or business school – just get on and do it.

Don’t think what’s the cheapest way to do it or what’s the fastest way to do it. Think what’s the most amazing way to do it.

Your employees are your company’s real competitive advantage. They’re the ones making the magic happen-so long as their needs are being met.

If you don’t have time for the small things, you won’t have time for the big things.

Just start. You will learn so many lessons just by doing.

If you look after your staff, they’ll look after your customers. It’s that simple.

One key to entrepreneurial success is to get a great group of people around you who believe in your idea.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them – preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

If somebody offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes-then learn how to do it later!

We stand in solidarity against racism and for racial justice.

Launching a business is essentially an adventure in problem-solving.

There is no point in going into a business unless you can make a radical difference in other people’s lives.

Ambition is the great fire, it’s the liberator of the unconscious person. No goals, no growth; no clarity, no change.

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships.

The ambitious are criticized by those that have given up.

What great changes have not been ambitious?

Without my mother’s ambition, her drive, I doubt that on my own I would have pushed myself out of Pozzuoli and into the frightening world that was faraway Rome.

Ambition is when you close the gap between your circumstances and expectations.

What we have, what we wish we had – ambitions fulfilled, ambitions disappointed, investments won, investments lost, elections won, elections lost – these things may occupy our attention, but they do not define us.

I remember the whole thing with the word ambition. I was messed up for a while because I associated it with certain people who just want to be famous. I think, for a while, it was kind of a dirty word for women.