There's so much happening with the youth looking at local or national problems and solving them with innovation and technology. This is what startup success means.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

Businesses that grow by development and improvement do not die. But when a business ceases to be creative, when it believes it has reached perfection and needs to do nothing but produce no improvement, no development, it is done.

Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.

First, accept that turbulence is here to stay. Most successful companies are those that stay calm and think down to earth rather than showing aggressiveness to shorten the crisis period.

I've often felt there might be more to be gained by studying business failures than business successes.