If a thought or an action does not feel right, it is a caution flag from the soul.
Successes are always unique and hard to copy. The fact that easyJet became a success is due to a mixture of talent and luck.
People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
America has its roots in a tradition of risk-taking pioneers. In more conservative Europe, if you fail in business or actually end up going to jail for it, you're finished as a businessman for good.
Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.
I have to manage and protect my brand. For the details I can always hire people who can knuckle down much better. For that I need people who are different to myself. People who compensate for my weaknesses.
All things start in California and spread to New Jersey, then to London and then throughout Europe.
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
Every breath is a battle between grudgery and gratitude. Give thanks. . . and you win joy.
I got the breaks. Starting from nowhere in the corn belt, I helped edit a country weekly, then was jack-of-all-departments on an obscure daily, so that when I arrived in a big city everything I tackled in the line of column conducting and syndicate peddling and playwriting had to bring promotion, because I had no social standing which could be endangered, no reputation to toss away and no pride which might suffer a setback. Everything I acquired had to be velvet. You cannot lose your silver spoon if you are brought up on pewter.
If I'm at the University of Georgia and I can't inspire this room full of students, OK, fine. I'm not going to take it personally. Maybe a little bit, but I'll be all right.