Many entrepreneurs do not realize that many of the problems their businesses face today began yesterday, long before there was a business.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.

The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

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.

Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Hundreds of people who’ve never written before send in ‚Dr. Who‘ scripts. They may have good ideas, but what they fail to realise is that writing for TV is incredibly complicated. They have no idea how difficult it is and what the financial commitment is.

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

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

Men weren’t always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful.

Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

Boot camp sucks – SEAL training sucks – but you know what? That’s what makes you good.

Often, I can scarcely hear any one speaking to me; the tones yes, but not the actual words; yet as soon as any one shouts, it is unbearable. What will come of all this, heaven only knows!

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Each generation faces different issues and challenges, but our standard must always be measured by God’s word.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

When I was writing ‚Kitchen Confidential,‘ I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.

Life is a matter of really tough choices.

If you look at space companies, they’ve failed either because they’ve had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.

I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.

The problem with EMMA is that it is cost prohibitive for the small investors who were supposed to benefit from the new transparency.

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

Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

I report to you that our country is challenged at home and abroad: that it is our will that is being tried and not our strength; our sense of purpose and not our ability to achieve a better America.

For any young democracy, the most difficult but important step is burying the legacy of tyranny and establishing an economy and a government and institutions that abide by the rule of law. Every country faces challenges to the rule of law, including my own.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Ironically, parenting is a shame and judgment minefield precisely because most of us are wading through uncertainty and self-doubt when it comes to raising our children.

The ability of a successful company to add functionality to its product has long been upheld.

When most people ask about a business growing, what they really mean is growing revenue, not just growing the number of people using a service. Traditional businesses would view people using your service that you don’t make money from as a cost.

Through every victory and every setback, I’ve insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn’t meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.

The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

People don’t realize that we, we meaning people in show business, have the same problems as everyone else. Money doesn’t change that. Fame doesn’t change that. Sometimes that brings on more problems. You know, it’s just a different kind of problems.

In a lot of ways, success is much harder than I thought it would be. I figured that you’d get here and then everything would be happily ever after. But, it’s hard work, almost harder once you’re successful because you’ve got to maintain it.

It’s lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

Only when the tide goes out do you discover who’s been swimming naked.

The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

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.

Let’s face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can’t resist.

Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer’s avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

I had this child, and it destroyed my family.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

My task over the last two years hasn’t just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn’t come out right, you’ve got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

I’ve seen how the issues that come across a president’s desk are always the hard ones – the problems where no amount of data or numbers will get you to the right answer.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

It’s always a struggle growing up in Akron.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

My folks ain’t graduated from high school or nothing like that, so we always had to struggle in the family – and I come from a big family.

In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their customers. We expect this trend to grow as well.