When you say ‚follow me on Twitter,‘ and you get 10 million people to follow you – you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

It used to be the case, like you’d switch jobs, and then maybe you wouldn’t keep in touch with all the people that you knew from that old job, just because it was too hard. But one of the things that Facebook does is it makes it really easy to just stay in touch with all these people.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

Property is organized robbery.

You’ve gotta understand that with branding and the way things are promoted, in our day and age, your older movie stars are not reachable or accessible because they’re not a part of the whole social media world.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we – we own this country. We – we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours.

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn’t pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don’t have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places.

The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.

The only difference between Benito and Bad Bunny is 16 million followers on Instagram. And the money that Bad Bunny has in the bank. Benito had, like, $7. The numbers are different, but I’m still the same. Even my insecurities remain the same.

If you’re going to change things, you have to be with the people who hold the levers.

Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I own a ’66 Jaguar. That’s the guitar I polish, and baby – I refuse to let anyone touch it when I jump into the crowd.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

I’ve used the prestige and influence of having been a president of the United States as effectively as possible. And secondly, I’ve still been able to carry out my commitments to peace and human rights and environmental quality and freedom and democracy and so forth.

The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour.

Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.

I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.

Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

We must ensure that technology is accessible, affordable, and adds value.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

My style influences my music and everything around me.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

My number one thing? Don’t overleverage yourself. Don’t say you can do something when you really can’t.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

I mean, we’ve built a lot of products that we think are good, and will help people share photos and share videos and write messages to each other. But it’s really all about how people are spreading Facebook around the world in all these different countries. And that’s what’s so amazing about the scale that it’s at today.

Value is what you get.

Remember that the essence of authority is that people willingly follow your lead.

If literature isn’t everything, it’s not worth a single hour of someone’s trouble.

People love photos. Photos originally weren’t that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people – and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I’m giving you myself in the music. There’s where the connection comes from; you can’t Twitter that.

It confuses me and disappoints me when somebody says, ‚What does he do? What does he do?‘ My records are some of the biggest anthems ever. What do you think, they magically just appear? Obama walked out to my record.

I’m never on Twitter. I’m never on Instagram. And that’s not by choice: it’s just that those things never really interested me. I might post a picture here and there, but that ain’t really been my focus.

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood.

What constitutes a real, live human being is more of a mystery than ever these days, and men each one of whom is a valuable, unique experiment on the part of nature are shot down wholesale.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

Power over a man’s subsistence is power over his will.

Social media can be very effective in creating movements. In the beginning, that is how I first got attention.