Are we a nation that educates the world’s best and brightest in our universities, only to send them home to create businesses in countries that compete against us? Or are we a nation that encourages them to stay and create jobs, businesses, and industries right here in America?

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.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can’t be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it’s not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Bring them on.

Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation?

I will cut taxes – cut taxes – for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

A child miseducated is a child lost.

If you’ve found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

I’m an inventor.

The Recovery Act is working, but it’s going to continue to work. It’s not over. A lot’s going to happen this summer. And even after the summer, there’s more to come with the act.

The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.

After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn’t cool.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

There’s only one thing that can kill the movies, and that’s education.

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

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

Tesla is here to stay and keep fighting for the electric car revolution.

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

I really do encourage other manufacturers to bring electric cars to market. It’s a good thing, and they need to bring it to market and keep iterating and improving and make better and better electric cars, and that’s what going to result in humanity achieving a sustainable transport future. I wish it was growing faster than it is.

If you believe that tax policy has nothing to do with the economy, then you’re pretty much like a rock, only dumber.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

See, that’s why Barack’s running: to end the war in Iraq responsibly – to build an economy that lifts every family, to make sure health care is available for every American – and to make sure that every child in this nation has a world-class education all the way from preschool to college.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I used to go missing a lot… Miss Canada, Miss United Kingdom, Miss World.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Some people think literature is high culture and that it should only have a small readership. I don’t think so… I have to compete with popular culture, including TV, magazines, movies and video games.

The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together.

When I was born, the economy wasn’t in a great state; it was the Depression, and my father had to be quick to try and find work.

The idea of going to school and getting a job is the most destructive one in your brain.

Foreigners don’t want to invest any more in France – and this is not working.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Automotive franchise laws were put in place decades ago to prevent a manufacturer from unfairly opening stores in direct competition with an existing franchise dealer that had already invested time, money and effort to open and promote their business.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.

I’d love to go into WWE and have a real knock and see what’s what.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind.

Immigrants aren’t the reason wages haven’t gone up enough; those decisions are made in the boardrooms that too often put quarterly earnings over long-term returns.

I guess for every driver the aim is to beat their teammate.

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.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star.

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.

With Virgin, I’ve just loved creating things. And as a private company, I can get away with moving Virgin from records to airlines to train companies to space companies to whatever, without ever having to worry about analysts knocking the value of my stock.

The United States is definitely ahead in culture of innovation. If someone wants to accomplish great things, there is no better place than the U.S.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

One is lucky to be born in a place where no one is doing it, because then you can say, ‚Well, obviously I can write better than everyone else in high school.‘ You have no idea of the competition.

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.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

In my line of work, the enemy gets a vote.

Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other ‚studies‘ was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these ‚studies‘ are about propaganda rather than serious education.

I can no longer type, so I use TalkingPoint and Dragon Dictate. It’s a speech-to-text program, and there’s an add-on for talking which some guys came up with.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.