In the same way that I tend to make up my mind about people within thirty seconds of meeting them, I also make up my mind about whether a business proposal excites me within about thirty seconds of looking at it. I rely far more on gut instinct than researching huge amounts of statistics.

If you don't succeed at first, there's no need for the F word (Failure). Pick yourself up and try, try again.

Success cannot be measured in wealth, fame or power, but by whether you have made a positive difference for others.

Money gives you the freedom to do with your time what you want to do with it

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 works, but it has its flaws; for one, it brings great wealth to only a few people. That wealth obviously brings extreme responsibility.

Set impossible challenges. Then catch up with them.

What can you do to make a difference? And why should you do it? (...) the scale of one's social investments doesn't matter. What matters is that you operate as a force for good at every scale available to you.