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.'

Screw it, just do it!

Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.

In Syria, if [Bashar al-] Assad had just been a statesman and handed over the reigns in time, Syria would not be heading down the nightmare that it is today.

Confidence breeds confidence and negativity breeds negativity. Treat those around you with respect and dignity and they will thrive.

...making profits is important because it keeps all our people in jobs and, you know, it keeps what we - what we've created going, but, you know, what we're - what I get my - what I'm proud about doing is creating companies which we're really proud of, you know, which we can really be proud of and a byproduct of that hopefully will be that they'll be profitable and be able to pay the bills.

When you are making a decision about how best to serve your customers, your own experience is often a better guide than a more sophisticated analysis of the market.