Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Every first-term president has to learn something after he comes into office. Nobody can be completely ready for the inevitable crises.

Talent without working hard is nothing.

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like I came so far, like that was just a dream a few years before that, and then it was happening right then.

Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.

We learned about gratitude and humility – that so many people had a hand in our success, from the teachers who inspired us to the janitors who kept our school clean… and we were taught to value everyone’s contribution and treat everyone with respect.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

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

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

You can’t really imagine music without technology.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

If you count E-mail, I’m on the Internet all day, every day.

Fit no stereotypes. Don’t chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team’s mission.

My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

I’m always interested in what you can do with technology that people haven’t thought of doing yet.

I’ve got incredible support from my wife and family and people around me. I’ve got great people around me who handle anything on the outside, business-wise, who help free me up to create in my job.

I think I’d be a better president because I was in combat.

It’s amazing, the culture Coach Belichick has been able to create in our system.

She never envisioned a legal career for me, but she did think it was very important that I be able to support myself, and I think she would be pleased to see what has become of me.

I think a lot of things that are the norm, that are very systematic, don’t work.

The time has come for us to draw the line. The time has come for the responsible leaders of both political parties to take a stand against overgrown Government and for the American taxpayer.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

When you’re coming up with new material, it’s not always gonna be good. The only way to learn is for it not to get a laugh, so you can adjust it and come back the next day to see if it’s working right. Next time, you might get a different laugh. You’re constantly rebuilding.

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

My imagination is a twisted place.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

I won at every level – all the way since I started playing the game of basketball at nine. I’ve won at every level, won championships at every level. And, you know, it won’t be fulfilled until I win at the highest level.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

‚Two Voices,‘ from my album with Peter Schwalm, is an intact dream-poem. I awoke one night with an image of a piece of paper and all the words of the poem written on it, so I just blundered down to the kitchen table and ‚copied it out.‘

Apple has given me a platform to spread music. They’re giving us Latinos a chance to shine.

I think the first thing you should know is that nobody in country music ‚made it‘ the same way. It’s all different. There’s no blueprint for success, and sometimes you just have to work at it.

I am not interested in power for power’s sake, but I’m interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good.

It’s insane that, since the Beatles and Dylan, it’s assumed that all musicians should do everything themselves. It’s that ridiculous, teenage idea that when Mick Jagger sings, he’s telling you something about his own life. It’s so arrogant to think that people would want to know about it anyway!

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

If you are born an artist, you have no choice but to fight to stay an artist.

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

Imagine your family finally making it from nothing to something, and finally getting things going, and finally buying a beautiful house and taking care of your children – and the next day, it’s completely all gone. Zero. Boom. Flat broke. So that’s when I had to man up.

We were the first generation to have to deal with the modern stardom of football. Some handled it better than others.

The President’s post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

All good art is an indiscretion.

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Success is only meaningful and enjoyable if it feels like your own.

My opinion is it’s a bridge too far to go to fully autonomous cars.

The thing I always say to people is this: ‚If you avoid failure, you also avoid success.‘

Art’s everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.