I’m a Silicon Valley guy. I just think people from Silicon Valley can do anything.

I don’t fight in chase of an individual. I hear this sometimes where fighters work their whole careers to reach a matchup with a certain individual. I do not think in that way.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Only the insecure strive for security.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

I just want to keep pushing the envelope without it feeling forced.

Forces that you might think are utterly unrelated to creativity can have a big impact. Technology, obviously, but environment, too. Even financial structures can affect the actual content of a song. The making of music is profoundly affected by the market.

How do people relate to movies now, when they’re on portable devices or streaming them? It’s not as much about going to the movies. That experience has changed.

There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe this is the most important problem we can focus on.

Confidence is always a good thing to have going into the weekend. Especially where it’s quite difficult to put the lap together.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

The potential financial reward for building the ‚next Windows‘ is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Most people have no idea what something would sound like if it wasn’t an MP3.

For the first time we’re allowing developers who don’t work at Facebook to develop applications just as if they were. That’s a big deal because it means that all developers have a new way of doing business if they choose to take advantage of it. There are whole companies that are forming whose only product is a Facebook Platform application.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Our brains are either our greatest assets or our greatest liabilities.

I have a self-defense mind. I’ve had it all my life.

Technology has allowed people to make records really cheap. You can make a record on a laptop.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

The best part about being in your thirties is you know what works for you.

I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

In my day, there were no vet video games.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

To create a new standard, it takes something that’s not just a little bit different; it takes something that’s really new and really captures people’s imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I’ve ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.

I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life.

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you’re going to innovate.

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I was everything an R&B singer wasn’t. I wasn’t in shape. I wasn’t a pretty boy.

We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.

The X is an amazing car, but we kind of got carried away with the art and technology. Obviously, you want great art. You want great technology. But we did get a little distracted from our mission, which was to advance the cause of electric vehicles. And it probably delayed us a little bit with the Model 3 as well.

The space shuttle was often used as an example of why you shouldn’t even attempt to make something reusable. But one failed experiment does not invalidate the greater goal. If that was the case, we’d never have had the light bulb.

Bottom line is, I didn’t return to Apple to make a fortune. I’ve been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn’t going to let it ruin my life. There’s no way you could ever spend it all, and I don’t view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.

People use technology only to mean digital technology. Technology is actually everything we make.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Any idea, plan, or purpose may be placed in the mind through repetition of thought.

I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

The key to making things affordable is design and technology improvements, as well as scale.

My fat never made me less money.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment, it doesn’t mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone else’s bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery?

I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.

When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.

Never complain. Never explain.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

Entrepreneurs are natural problem-solvers, which means that we always have ideas for new businesses popping into our heads. Having a lot of options is great, but sometimes it can be hard to focus on one when you are keen to move onto the next.

For peace is not mere absence of war, but is a virtue that springs from, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

The most genius thing about the way I create is to create with other geniuses.