Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus‘ success in the spreadsheet – basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those goals. And now they are completely lost.

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.

In England, when an athlete gets to the top, we do our best to destroy him.

Finding good partners is the key to success in anything: in business, in marriage and, especially, in investing.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Our goal is not to build a platform; it’s to be cross all of them.

I love big business!

Don’t go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you’ll land in trouble too big for you.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

I’ve always been at the intersection of computers and whatever they can revolutionize.

That’s when it becomes a business. When you’ve been public a long time, when it’s a career. You do certain films, you sell them.

I’m often accused of being ahead of my time, but it’s simply not true. The truth is that everybody else is behind.

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

It’s a common misconception that money is every entrepreneur’s metric for success. It’s not, and nor should it be.

Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.

Skype actually does get a fair bit of revenue.

No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours‘ writing. Nothing.

I am in touch with a company that hopes to replicate my voice. However, they are not replicating my original voice – if they did that, I would sound like a man in his 20s, which would be very strange! They are actually trying to replicate the synthesizer that sits on my wheelchair.

Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come.

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 secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

People think because I’ve got some success, I’ve made it, but in my eyes it’s like, ‚How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?‘ Not that I’m trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn’t had a major chance to shape the mobile operating system ecosystem.

Hollywood has a way of making everything seem like an overnight success.

Genius is patience.

Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Software constraints are only confining if you use them for what they’re intended to be used for.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

The highly functional infrastructure that surrounds us, particularly in the West, is a gift from our ancestors: the comparatively uncorrupt political and economic systems, the technology, the wealth, the lifespan, the freedom, the luxury, and the opportunity.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don’t play together, the club won’t be worth a dime.

Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasible enough to spend time in working over. I believe, however, that it is feasible and that I have got the cue to the solution of the problem.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I have to admit, I sometimes wonder how much more successful I would have been as a coach had it not been for my spending summers on the golf course. I could have watched more film, that’s for sure. One advantage Joe Paterno had over me was that he didn’t play golf.

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.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

Educate the masses, elevate their standard of intelligence, and you will certainly have a successful nation.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

I don’t think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don’t think they know how to run a trailer park.

Fame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

In the history of medicine, it is not always the great scientist or the learned doctor who goes forward to discover new fields, new avenues, new ideas.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

Think off-center.

The engineering is long gone in most PC companies. In the consumer electronics companies, they don’t understand the software parts of it. And so you really can’t make the products that you can make at Apple anywhere else right now. Apple’s the only company that has everything under one roof.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.