“To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.”

Your brand name is only as good as your reputation.

Follow your instincts and live with the consequences.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Always think, ‘what’s the worst that can happen’ and have some kind of strategy to deal with it.

Train people well enough so they can leave, treat them well enough so they don’t want to.

If people aren’t calling you crazy, you aren’t thinking big enough.

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.

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.

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.