I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.

My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.

The key is to set realistic customer expectations, and then not to just meet them, but to exceed them - preferably in unexpected and helpful ways.

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 are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

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