It’s hard to tell with these Internet startups if they’re really interested in building companies or if they’re just interested in the money. I can tell you, though: If they don’t really want to build a company, they won’t luck into it. That’s because it’s so hard that if you don’t have a passion, you’ll give up.

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead.

I mean, what would I be doing if I couldn’t write? But that fortunately hasn’t proved to be the case and I can read any day. I still read a lot, and I can write any day, but much more slowly and fewer words.

Begin – to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

I play piano and ukulele, and I taught myself those things just because I wanted to play them.

To reach a port, we must sail – sail, not tie at anchor – sail, not drift.

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

I’m a businessman as well as an entertainer. The reason why is because I want to own whatever I’m doing. I don’t want to work for other people forever.

Because my career is so important, I think I make a lot of – I wouldn’t call them sacrifices, but just concessions for my job. I love what I do, and I want to do it for a long time.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

One thing Britons have always been celebrated for, and that is being able to stick it out in a tight place.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

Disneyland is a work of love. We didn’t go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.

There are massive efforts on the part of the internet’s corporate owners to try to direct it to become a technique of marginalisation and control.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe.

In ‚Unfair Advantage: The Power of Financial Education‘ and ‚Why A Students Work for C Students,‘ I reveal the secrets of the wealthy and what schools will never teach you about money.

Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle… and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable – those billionaire reports are a joke.

My mother never gave up one me. I messed up in school so much they were sending me home, but my mother sent me right back.

I still love football, though, and I think cooking is like football. It’s not a job, it’s a passion. When you become good at it, it’s a dream job and financially you need never to worry. Ever.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

They say it is the first step that costs the effort. I do not find it so. I am sure I could write unlimited ‚first chapters‘. I have indeed written many.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

While still working for others, your goal at some point must be to carve out little areas that you can operate on your own, cultivating entrepreneurial skills.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

I always have been an activist for things that were just authentically a part of my life, that I felt connected to.

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.

The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. It is impossible to think of a genuine revolutionary lacking this quality.

Why is it that although it takes us years to get into our messes, we expect God to get us out of them in a few days?

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

Of course, I do everything for money.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

If this were all to go away tomorrow, all the big success, I would still be very happy going from bar to bar playing music for people.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I just know that I’m a fan of all different kinds of genres. You’re supposed to be free doing music, and that’s how I feel.

It’s like a muscle – if you stop going to the gym or stop running, you get weak. The military teaches you these great values, but we don’t keep up the discipline on our own, and we lose it. So wherever you go, keep that discipline up.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right.

I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.

I definitely don’t think that money can buy you love. It can buy you affection but certainly not love.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books. It’s been printed all over, so I don’t feel like I am hiding anything.

We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I’m going to be alive, I want to be challenged – to be as immortal as possible. The path to that isn’t an easy way, but it’s a rewarding way.

My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery – always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What’s this passion for?

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.

Whatever you want to do, do with full passion and work really hard towards it. Don’t look anywhere else. There will be a few distractions, but if you can be true to yourself, you will be successful for sure.

On ‚Grey’s Anatomy‘ I wouldn’t care what I was playing – I would play a corpse, ‚cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.