Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes!
I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.
Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.
Don't cry about money, it never cries for you.
So much of life is a negotiation - so even if you're not in business, you have opportunities to practice all around you.
If you put Canada into $1. 5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.
Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
Don't listen to me. I'm not a politician. I know nothing about politics. But people are cheering when something very bad happens to him [Donald Trump]. So that's got to make you think before voting for him.
Men should spend less time with guns and more time in childbirth.
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.