I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

America’s experience, like many others, teaches us that fostering entrepreneurship is not just about crafting the right economic policy or developing the best educated curricula. It’s about creating an entire climate in which innovation and ideas flourish.

I made the track ‚Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola‘ before I met Balvin.

Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States.

Remember, the storm is a good opportunity for the pine and the cypress to show their strength and their stability.

I always tell people that you should only hire people to be on your team if you would work for them.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

The American dream belongs to all of us.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

When I jumped off a roof in Cannes in a bee costume, I looked ridiculous. But this is my business; I have to humiliate myself.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

To not be modest about it, you’ll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I’ve worked with have done their best work by far with me.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.

Black or white good parts are hard to come by. A good actor with a good opportunity has a shot; without the opportunity it doesn’t matter how good you are.

I’m not in the business of ranking or debating who is what.

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.

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

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Government can provide opportunity. But opportunity means nothing unless people are prepared to seize it.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

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.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time. You’re trying to get the right approach and the right answer, and there are moments that aren’t very pleasant. But in the end, you look at the overall product.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

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

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

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.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise.

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

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

I wish every American had an opportunity to sit down, to go to a base, to meet with families, to meet with service members, to sit down with our veterans – because we would think differently about our challenges as individuals.

War is the business of barbarians.

I just hate meetings. Though it’s true that once you’ve made a lot of money, people around you might be full of ideas about ways to make lots more money and might be disappointed that you don’t want to seize every opportunity to do so.

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

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It’s done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

If I have cash and I can’t figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

There are disasters that happen – Hurricane Harvey came up, and you had people self-organizing through the community and getting in boats and driving around rescuing people coordinated ad hoc through this network. That’s not a media function.

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

A holding company is a thing where you hand an accomplice the goods while the policeman searches you.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

Opportunity makes a thief.

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

I just love working hard. I love being part of a team; I love working toward a common goal.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.