Outsourcing is inevitable, and I don’t think it’s necessarily treating people like things.

Literally wrote ‚Starboy‘ in 30 minutes.

My share of the work may be limited, but the fact that it is work makes it precious.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

From infancy, I have relied on the fiercely sweet spirits of black men; and this is abundantly clear in my work.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

Short cuts make long delays.

I like to work.

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

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

I can’t say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

I’m not a macroeconomics person.

I feel that the best companies are started not because the founder wanted a company but because the founder wanted to change the world… If you decide you want to found a company, you maybe start to develop your first idea. And hire lots of workers.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

Time is money.

The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they’ll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what’s happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don’t seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

In business, success often depends upon the relative age of your ideas.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

The only thing I can say is that I like people; I like human beings with their faults and with their strengths.

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.

I wanted to be a doctor that I might be able to work without having to talk because for years I had been giving myself out in words.

The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would steal them away.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

The movie business is a big gamble.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

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.

Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.

The work is the work. The work is not me.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations.

Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.

I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

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.

Look, freedom is an overwhelming American notion. The idea that we want to see the world, the peoples of the world free is something that all of us subscribe to.

Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!

With the amount of fixed expense that goes into developing something like the BE-4 engine, you want it to be used as much as possible.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

In many ways, September feels like the busiest time of the year: The kids go back to school, work piles up after the summer’s dog days, and Thanksgiving is suddenly upon us.

We don’t thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

To me, business isn’t about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It’s about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You’re encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren’t that smart, who aren’t that creative.

The thing most people don’t pick up when they become an entrepreneur is that it never ends. It’s 24/7.

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

I don’t think I am evangelical in my work.