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.

Barack knows the American Dream because he’s lived it, and he wants everyone in this country to have that same opportunity, no matter who we are or where we’re from or what we look like or who we love.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

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

I built a company at the same time I built a career.

A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Dr. Karel Culik is an outstanding applied mathematician, a specialist in algebra, logic, computer sciences and mathematical linguistics. In 1965, he visited the linguistics research program at MIT, and we have worked together on several projects since.

I am a child but I have to think and act like a woman, this business forces you to.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

Arafat’s departure has created an awesome opportunity.

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

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?

Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

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.

For me it came from the material. It was so well written and brought the opportunity to work with great actors. And of course the opportunity to ‚mince about‘ was an added element that I wanted to take advantage of!

A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it.

I have surrounded myself with very smart people.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

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.

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

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

I’ve been blessed in that regard through and through. So I’m just thankful for this opportunity to play the game that I love and share that with the world.

The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

May we do good everywhere as we have opportunity, and results will not be wanting!

Democracy is not static. It is a living force. Every new idea, every new invention offers opportunity for both good and evil.

Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.

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

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

When you face a ‚performance‘ that might provoke the ‚I’m scared‘ response, choose love and approach your opportunity as a chance to dance with God. It’s more fun than ‚Dancing with the Stars!‘

Leadership is influence.

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don’t believe is right.

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

Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

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

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

Synergy is better than my way or your way. It’s our way.

Public education is our greatest pathway to opportunity in America. So we need to invest in and strengthen our public universities today, and for generations to come.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

My early business ventures included growing Christmas trees and breeding birds.

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

Art is the beautiful way of doing things. Science is the effective way of doing things. Business is the economic way of doing things.

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?

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.