Most entrepreneurs are not doing it for financial motives in the first place. They're just people who love creating.

When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

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.

If you look for the best in your employees, they'll flourish. If you criticize or look for the worst, they'll shrivel up. We all need lots of watering.

Any successful entrepreneur knows that time is more valuable than money itself.

My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

I have learnt more from my failures than my successes.