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.

What keeps me going is goals.

Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought.

In order for me to be successful… In order to be a great artist – musician, actor, painter, whatever – you must be able to be private in public at all times. That is what we do.

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

I wanted to write when I was young, but people said it was impossible. Then my parents locked me in a mental institution – they said I was crazy and would never make a living from writing.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

It all went wrong with football, the thing I loved most of all, and from there, my life slowly fell apart.

And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on.

I like being a writer.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

When the PC was launched, people knew it was important.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition – such as lifting weights – we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

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

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don’t stop, don’t put it down.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

Basically, I’m one of the greatest producers ever. And I’m also one of the greatest DJs ever. And I’m also one of the best executives ever.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

HartBeat Productions is a company established by me; it’s mine. I run it. I have employees.

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

There’s an ecstatic side to writing. It’s like jazz. It just has a life.

If I’d been born ugly, you’d never have heard of Pele.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, – till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.

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.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it’s a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

We clearly see in God’s Word that anything He tells us to do, He will give us the ability to do it. But do we really believe it? Do we want to believe it? It’s easier to come up with excuses for why we can’t do things that are hard or that we really don’t want to do.

I have worked hard since my childhood and worked as a labourer. I put my mind and heart into it.

My success rate speaks for itself.

The only passion that guides me is for the truth… I look at everything from this point of view.

The writer must earn money in order to be able to live and to write, but he must by no means live and write for the purpose of making money.

There weren’t a lot of career opportunities in crazy-fast hardcore punk, so you didn’t have a lot of ambition, just the love and passion to play music with your friends.

Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

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

My drive is other people’s success.

Energy and persistence conquer all things.

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed.

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

Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

People always say that you can’t please everybody. I think that’s a cop-out. Why not attempt it? ‚Cause think of all the people you will please if you try.

Those who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.

If you want to talk about something new, you have to make up a new kind of language.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed.