With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power.

I think I had a mild case of Asperger’s as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while.

Is science of any value? I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value.

Humans are unbelievably data efficient. You don’t have to drive 1 million miles to drive a car, but the way we teach a self-driving car is have it drive a million miles.

Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.

If you calculate 15 minutes a day to shave, that is 5,000 minutes a year spent shaving.

Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.

Africa will thrive.

Short cuts make long delays.

Anyone that’s involved in development has discovered that all the good work that’s been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings.

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else.

I aspire my country eventually has a league where all players play 50 games.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

In order to fulfill the aspirations of masses, we have to sharpen the tool called the government machinery: we have to make it keen, more dynamic, and it is in this direction that we are working.

People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

China has to go along with world trends. That’s democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.

In ideal form of social control is an atomised collection of individuals focused on their own narrow concern, lacking the kinds of organisations in which they can gain information, develop and articulate their thoughts, and act constructively to achieve common ends.

One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.

The world is put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts to conventionality.

Concede that the new government of Louisiana is only to what it should be, as the egg is to the fowl; we shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.

The alliance in Jammu and Kashmir is one of the most important developments on the contemporary political scene.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

90 percent of my time is spent on 10 percent of the world.

Childhood is the sleep of reason.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

Nothing recedes like progress.

The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

Delay is preferable to error.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

I fear that there are too many priesthood bearers who have done little or nothing to develop their ability to access the powers of Heaven.

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn’t standing still.

Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

When I finish something, I want it out that day. Pop music is like the daily paper. Its got to be there then, not six months later.

You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

It’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.

A man’s growth is seen in the successive choirs of his friends.

Latin America has much richer resources. You’d expect it to be far more advanced than East Asia, but it had the disadvantage of being under imperialist wings.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.