I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it – young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous – is changed by it.

I have a producing partner named Stephen Hamel, and we’ve been trying to generate material.

The arts don’t exist in isolation.

We have observed that, in society and the world in which we live, selfishness has increased more than love for others, and that men of good will must work, each with his own strengths and expertise, to ensure that love for others increases until it is equal and possibly exceeds love for oneself.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.

Leadership is hard. It’s a skill. It’s a technique.

The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

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

I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I’m not a genius. I need other people to get the perfect information. When we have this, we will decide to sign or sell a player.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea.

I’m a pretty funny guy, and I would love to do a comedy with a bunch of funny guys – movie-star guys, where they could help me through it.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

If everything isn’t black and white, I say, ‚Why the hell not?‘

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

God’s desire is that we excel.

I don’t know who I touch and who I don’t. I work hard trying to make people laugh. I try to do the kind of stuff that made me laugh growing up. I don’t have any secrets. I don’t know the reasons I’ve been so well received.

Idleness is the parent of psychology.

The more centuries that I am able to score, the happier I will be.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

The onus is on the managers to send out an attacking formation and to tell their players to be bold.

When the burdens of the presidency seem unusually heavy, I always remind myself it could be worse. I could be a mayor.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I know what I do for my team and what my teammates expect of me on both ends of the floor.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

It’s not worth doing something unless you were doing something that someone, somewere, would much rather you weren’t doing.

I don’t know anything that builds the will to win better than competitive sports.

Even if the politics needed doesn’t exist today, we still need to use our voices to make sure that the people in power are focused on the right things. Because this is a democracy, and in a democracy, people are the ones who run the country.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

One man with courage is a majority.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

All that I know most surely about morality and obligations I owe to football.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.