“If family or friends are unwell or ill – it’s perhaps the only thing that really can make one feel vulnerable.”

Remember the to-do list but don’t forget the to-be list.

Please don’t get hung up on this question of whether you need to have experience in an industry before you launch your startup.

Don’t wait till you are big before you begin building your brand. Build a brand from scratch alongside your business.

All successful people – not just entrepreneurs – have got things wrong over and over again before finding the right solution.

Colleagues should take care of each other, have fun, celebrate success, learn by failure, look for reasons to praise not to criticize, communicate freely and respect each other.

Create the kind of workplace and company culture that will attract great talent. If you hire brilliant people, they will make work feel more like play.

Rather than getting nostalgic, embrace the new opportunities and challenges available to you now.

Please be polite. Nothing in life should erode the habit of saying thank you to people or praising them.

Play fair, be prepared for others to play dirty, and don’t let them drag you into the mud.

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.

A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.

A monk mind practices detachment. We realize that everything—from our houses to our families—is borrowed.

Because the only thing that stays with you from the moment you’re born until the moment you die is your breath. All your friends, your family, the country you live in, all of that can change. The one thing that stays with you is your breath.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

We’re in a tough situation because of teenage children, and then we have a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old, so my family and my responsibilities is sort of a juggle.

I believe in the institution of marriage and it’s like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.

The first step in selflessness is to practise it with our family.

My family is my strength and my weakness.