I was lucky – I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘ garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years, Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees.

I promise you, I will have something on the Internet that is game-changing. I can’t lose.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

You want to play another kind of character in another genre, and it’s been something I’ve been trying to do if I can in the career so far, and it’s something I hope to continue because it’s interesting to me and you get to do different things as an actor.

I plan on taking athletics as far as I can.

All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they’ll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad’s restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Good governance with good intentions is the hallmark of our government. Implementation with integrity is our core passion.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.

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.

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.

You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

Fashion has become so whatever. I don’t think there are any stones left to unturn.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

Football (soccer) is a matter of life and death, except more important.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

If I didn’t have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

I do think there is a lot of potential if you have a compelling product and people are willing to pay a premium for that. I think that is what Apple has shown. You can buy a much cheaper cell phone or laptop, but Apple’s product is so much better than the alternative, and people are willing to pay that premium.

I’m first and foremost a writer. I followed my personal legend, my childhood dream of becoming a writer, but I can’t say why I’m one.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

There’s something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

I was the kid that was the 199th pick that never had the body for it. People didn’t think I’d play one year in the NFL, and now I’m going on my 17th year.

I wanted to get rid of the element that had been considered essential in pop music: the voice.

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

A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. So they don’t have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one’s understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.

Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

I’ve always been amazed by Da Vinci, because he worked out science on his own. He would work by drawing things and writing down his ideas. Of course, he designed all sorts of flying machines way before you could actually build something like that.

When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It’s the same with me and writing.

My understanding of racial discrimination as a child was highly distorted because the most prominent man in Archery was an African-American bishop. When he came home from up north, where he was in charge of A.M.E. churches in five states, it was front-page news. He was the most successful man in my life.

Apple has always leveraged technologies that the PC industry has driven to critical mass – the bus structures, the graphics cards, the peripherals, the connection networks, things like that – so they’re kind of in the PC ecosystem and kind of not.

It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.

People have to understand one thing: at the age of 18, I arrived at a dream club like Manchester United. It was a dream come true. But, even at that moment, I was thinking about playing in England for some years and then going to play in Spain. Even at that time I was thinking that way, and I always gave 100% everything.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.