If you’re not failing every now and again, it’s a sign you’re not doing anything very innovative.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

If I’ve got something do. I’m going to attack it. I’m going to attack that stress.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I’m always going to feel everything. It’s my nature.

People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

It is what you read when you don’t have to that determines what you will be when you can’t help it.

Japan’s very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don’t think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that’s already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor.

I can take it. The tougher it gets, the cooler I get.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you’d be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you – until you get your revenge.

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

When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me.

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

I’ve actually taken companies public, I’ve actually busted companies, I’ve actually gone broke.

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work. I live by that. You grind hard so you can play hard. At the end of the day, you put all the work in, and eventually it’ll pay off. It could be in a year, it could be in 30 years. Eventually, your hard work will pay off.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

What good are fans? You can’t eat applause for breakfast. You can’t sleep with it.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

I’m not a futurist.

But there’s so much kludge, so much terrible stuff, we are at the 1908 Hurley washing machine stage with the Internet. That’s where we are. We don’t get our hair caught in it, but that’s the level of primitiveness of where we are. We’re in 1908.

I never thought of losing, but now that it‘ s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That’s my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

There is no passion to be found playing small – in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Don’t grow accustomed to living with less, doing less, and being less to the point that you eventually sit back and accept it.

Hitch your wagon to a star.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.

I’m not a natural born performer.

The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it’s Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same.

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

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

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.