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.

Fortunately we’re not a public company – we’re a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I’d love that. But I don’t need to be. I just want to be here. That’s it.

An artist or a creative person of any kind goes about their work because it’s their path, it’s what excites them, it’s what aligns their soul with who they truly are, who they showed up to be.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Since day one, since the first time I touched the pen, I wanted to be the best at what I do.

I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play.

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

A consistent anarchist must oppose private ownership of the means of production, and the wage-slavery which is a component of this system, as incompatible with the principle that labor must be freely undertaken and under the control of the producer.

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The greatest story of all is Colonel Sanders. He didn’t start until he was sixty-six on a freeway bypass for his chicken shop. Anything is possible!

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.

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

It’s like the Wild West, the Internet. There are no rules.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

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.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don’t just want to possess it, it will find you.

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

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas… cultures… and systems of thought, we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word ‚freedom‘ means than I see much evidence of in America.

Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am.

Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged.

We cannot expect that all nations will adopt like systems, for conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

I love story songs because I’ve always loved books.

For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.

Freedom is a man’s natural power of doing what he pleases, so far as he is not prevented by force or law.

My purpose is to make exciting music, and I feel like I’ll be doing that for the rest of my life, so there’s no pressure.

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

Tourism provides employment to the poorest of the poor. Gram seller earns something, auto-rickshaw driver earns something, pakoda seller earns something, and tea seller also earns something.

The Bill of Rights is not an a la carte menu.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

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.

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Shall I tell you what the real evil is? To cringe to the things that are called evils, to surrender to them our freedom, in defiance of which we ought to face any suffering.

I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball.

I’m gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell ‚em out of the trunk of my car. I’m that kind of musician and singer.

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

I started out as a poet. I’ve always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels.

I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all the things that I want, and I’m not afraid to say those things and act on them, and I think that’s why they identify with me.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

I was always interested – I mean, it’s kind of part of your job – I was always interested in the camera.

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.