Lane Kirkland

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don’t make.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.

In business, cooperation is essential to success.

You have an idea of the way you think it is, and it’s not that way at all, it’s something else.

It was always my practice to train salespeople under my direct supervision, and to treat children with the utmost consideration.

I never insisted that I was a good student.

Mr. Edison was comfortably well off-he was not a money maker.

In New York and Los Angeles, you can throw your car keys to the valet and he parks it. Same in Hong Kong and Singapore, the service is off the scale. In London it’s sub-standard to abysmal.

London has got better as it’s become more international – you only have to look at the quality of the restaurants to see how improved it’s become.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

I never made any public statements, at least I tried never to make any public statements. I know I don’t do it well, I become very nervous, I forget what it is that I mean to say, I can’t really convey my logic and my thought to the journalists, so I decided this is not my thing, I really shouldn’t be doing it.

In the Ford Motor Company we emphasize service equally with sales.

I have had the top people in the world into One Hyde Park, and they have seen everything and they say there is nothing quite like this.

Only a fool never changes his mind.

There are people who are really good managers, people who can manage a big organization, and then there are people who are very analytic or focused on strategy. Those two types don’t usually tend to be in the same person. I would put myself much more in the latter camp.