I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

I nearly failed when Virgin was in its infancy; I nearly failed in the early 1980s, and, of course, I have nearly died more than once trying to achieve a world record for boating or ballooning. But through a combination of luck and planning, both Virgin and I are still here.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

How could you have a soccer team if all were goalkeepers? How would it be an orchestra if all were French horns?

The movie business is a big gamble.

Percentage margins don’t matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

The American dream belongs to all of us.

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

Every time I see high-trust cultures, I see a lessening of adversarialism.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I think that every artist – or anybody that’s in business – could benefit from a direct-to-consumer strategy, so I think that that applies to us as artists and content creators, too.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

My friend James Cameron and I made three films together – True Lies, The Terminator and Terminator 2. Of course, that was during his early, low-budget, art-house period.

Nobody’s indispensable.

I’m proud to be part of the Dr. Pepper Scholarship Giveaway. It’s a great program that gives me the chance to brighten the day for some lucky college students with free tuition.

‚Soul Plane‘ put me in a position to succeed. I’m glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

I rely on other people every day of my life.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

My goal was never to just create a company. A lot of people misinterpret that, as if I don’t care about revenue or profit or any of those things. But what not being just a company means to me is not being just that – building something that actually makes a really big change in the world.