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.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Of all the things I’ve done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

Nothing recedes like progress.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

If you tell me there’s something I can’t do, I’ll want to do it even more. Especially when it comes to entertaining.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

It’s a juicy thing to say we’re building a phone, which is why people want to write about it. But it’s so clearly the wrong strategy for us.

I listen to music all day every day. I can’t not listen to music. It’s kind of scary how much I listen to music, but it’s what I love, and it’s all I care about, so I’m good with it.

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

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.

You want to do good things, and once you’ve done a couple of good things in a row, you think ‚Well gee, let’s not mess this up.‘ But I am lucky at this point that I have something I really love to do, and it completely holds my attention. I never feel frustrated by it.

He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.

I think that by staying true to myself and making music from my heart, the blessings come.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

Why not invest in the future of music, instead of building fortresses to preserve its past?

There’s no reason why I can’t be a mogul. When I step into a room and I’m there to have a conversation, if it pertains to business, I want to be respected as a guy who knows what he’s talking about. And that, to me, holds more weight than anything else.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you’re exactly the same.

My mother is a singer, my sisters all sing, my uncles are incredible singers and guitar players, so it’s just kind of been like my habitat.

Innovation can only occur where you can breathe free.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnation for their mistakes.

The rich are those who play to win. The middle class plays not to lose.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with the radio became me wanting to be on radio, you know.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

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

At the end of the day, we started playing football because we loved it.

Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

People want you to fail.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

I believe that one key to success is to accept truth, no matter how it’s spoken.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

I was very into making the Big Artistic Statement – it had to be innovative; it had to be cutting edge. I was desperately keen on being original.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The Premier League is one of the most difficult in the world. There’s five, six, or seven clubs that can be the champions. Only one can win, and all the others are disappointed and live in the middle of disaster.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

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

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

Being second is to be the first of the ones who lose.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

Working with J Balvin has undoubtedly been an unparalleled experience.

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

I thought that I wrote songs and wrote music, and that was sort of what I thought I was best at doing. And because nobody else was ever doing my songs, I felt – you know, I had to go out and do them.

I will never retire unless I have to.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

Art is man’s expression of his joy in labor.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

I love singing. I love it, and it doesn’t feel like a chore. It’s an expression.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

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.

The important thing is that your teammates have to know you’re pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.

You will never fulfill your destiny doing work you despise.