Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

I knew I’d be in the UFC since I started my career.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

I’m not very ambitious at all.

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.

The world has the habit of making room for the man whose actions show that he knows where he is going.

Be careful what you set your heart upon – for it will surely be yours.

The design of the Mac wasn’t what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarily, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you have to get it. You have to really grok what it’s all about. It takes a passionate commitment to really thoroughly understand something, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Before you start a goal – let’s take care of our insecurities because they are going to surface when you put yourself in the crucible and you’re suffering.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

The goal of Tesla is to accelerate sustainable energy, so we’re going to take a step back and think about what’s most likely to achieve that goal.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

One thing I’ve tried to never do is make wish lists. I try to have a very steppingstone mentality about this whole thing, where as soon as you make one step you visualize the next step, not five steps ahead.

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.

Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Dream in a pragmatic way.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind’s eye, and you will be drawn toward it.

Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit.

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

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

It’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.

How easy it is to govern when one follows a system of consulting the will of the people and one holds as the only norm all the actions which contribute to the well being of the people.

I’m not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don’t honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

Do all you can to make your dreams come true.

In my neighborhood, when you’ve got something to say to a guy, you look him in the eye and you say it to him.

I don’t think there is a single social issue I haven’t spoken on.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

We think Android is very, very fragmented, and becoming more fragmented by the day. And as you know, Apple strives for the integrated model so that the user isn’t forced to be the systems integrator.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

I am results-oriented.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Computers are still technology because we are still wrestling with it: it’s still being invented; we’re still trying to work out how it works. There’s a world of game interaction to come that you or I wouldn’t recognise. It’s time for the machines to disappear. The computer’s got to disappear into all of the things we use.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Journalism makes you think fast. You have to speak to people in all walks of life. Especially local journalism.

It’s never happened in history that every region in the world could affect every other region simultaneously. The Roman empire and the Chinese empire didn’t know much about each other and had no means of interacting. Now we have every continent able to reach every other.

You need to overcome the tug of people against you as you reach for high goals.

You can stroke people with words.

My goal is to be number one in MMA.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

We just think that there are all these different ways that people want to share, and that compressing them all into a single blue app is not the right format of the future.