In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

I’m always amazed at how many people assume a business has to lose money before it makes money.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

I’m a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we’re going to reinvent the phone.

Things won are done, joy’s soul lies in the doing.

Bob Houghton is a great coach and I am confident that the national team will do well under him.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

Collegiality is crucial to the success of our mission. We could not do the job the Constitution assigns to us if we didn’t – to use one of Justice Antonin Scalia’s favorite expressions – ‚Get over it!‘

Genius is a potential that lives within you and every other human being. You have many moments of genius in your lifetime. These are the times when you have a uniquely brilliant idea and implement it even if only you are aware of how fantastic it is.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

When you’re traveling constantly, every day you become inspired, and it shows in my work, sonically, lyrically, visually. Conversations with women with different accents and stories told in those accents. I like to create characters based on different people I’ve met, and relationships. I like to tell stories loosely based on real-life events.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

So vast is art, so narrow human wit.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

Every movie I make teaches me something. That’s why I keep making them.

I’m hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Of course it would be nice for everybody and myself if we could win but we can still have a personal or a team win if we achieve a target that is effectively a win for us.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

All great achievements require time.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.

An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator… these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it’s always expensive.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Once you get into space, you can really unleash a lot of creativity, but the launch itself? I have been through all of the creative ways, and believe me, chemical rockets are the best.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

Surface R&B doesn’t work any more. The whole heartthrob thing, songs about unrealistic love and tearing your shirt off every show – that’s not really where it’s at any more. It’s becoming harder for those guys to sell records, and harder for them to succeed.

Boeing just took $20 billion and 10 years to improve the efficiency of their planes by 10 percent. That’s pretty lame. I have a design in mind for a vertical liftoff supersonic jet that would be a really big improvement.

For me, it’s about becoming a mogul, owning my own projects, and establishing myself as a funding producer. That’s what’s big to me. The movies and all that stuff are great, but the fact that I’m in a position to do what I want to do, however I want to do it and when I want to do it is bigger.

An important priority for me is a business must get their own house in order. Be or become an agent of positive change in your own enterprise and adopt responsible practices to eliminate the risks that often lie at the root of inequality and poverty.

Whatever is on the page is what I’m married to. I’m very prepared. I’m a thespian. I don’t like to improv. I don’t like to go off course ‚cause I think that’s where stuff happens. When you stick to the material ‚cause it’s written so well, that’s where the magic happens.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.

When the first big paycheque with ‚Dumb And Dumber‘ hit, I went: ‚Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?‘ But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success.

You are remembered for the rules you break.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I don’t think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world’s face. That’s all private.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Don’t wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.