I like Mr. Gorbachev, we can do business together.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

If you or I fail at business, we fail. If we cheat and fail, we go to jail. But if you’re rich and politically connected, your incompetence may be protected by a government bailout.

Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.

Netscape was able to get the government working on its behalf.

Victory is a fleeting thing in the gambling business. Today’s winners are tomorrow’s blinking toads, dumb beasts with no hope.

Certainly there’s a phenomenon around open source. You know free software will be a vibrant area. There will be a lot of neat things that get done there.

You can’t choose up sides on a round world.

I’m not going to change the world. You’re not going to change the world. But we can help – we can all help.

A man should never neglect his family for business.

But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

I believe mutual respect for one another and cooperation should be the basis for relationships with foreign nations.

Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

I’ve found that men I’ve dated who are in the same business can be really competitive. I’ve found a great group of girlfriends in the same business who aren’t competitive, but a few times guys have started comparing careers and it has been… challenging.

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we’ve been thinking about a problem.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

I love big business!

We’re running the company to serve more people.

Tony Visconti and I had been wanting to work together again for a few years now. Both of us had fairly large commitments and for a long time we couldn’t see a space in which we could get anything together.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

If you don’t understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

Self-government does not and should not imply the use of political agencies alone. Progress is born of cooperation in the community – not from governmental restraints.

Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress.

The Moon Village concept has a nice property in that it basically just says, ‚Look, everybody builds their own lunar outpost, but let’s do it close to each other.‘ That way… you can go over to the European Union lunar outpost and say, ‚I’m out of eggs. What have you got?‘

Doing graphic novels is cool! It’s fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

I think if I did something in the pop world right now, it would be for Rihanna. I’d love to do something production wise for her.

My husband is everything to me and without him it’s just not the same.

If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.

People invest in businesses that they believe have the leadership, mission and team to grow and operate profitably.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

No nation was ever ruined by trade.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man’s pride in his work.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends.

Robert Fripp and I will be recording another LP very soon. It should be even more monotonous than the first one!

Philanthropy should be taking much bigger risks that business. If these are easy problems, business and government can come in and solve them.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

When you’re young, you look at television and think, there’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

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.

Sometimes the hardest thing to do is to trust your team. It’s a lesson I’ve had to relearn quite a few times.