Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people; and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people’s money to settle the quarrel.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

A true capitalist doesn’t have a job, because other people and other people’s money work for them.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.

Bayern want a decade of success like Barca. That’s OK if you have the money because it increases the possibility of success. But it’s not guaranteed.

I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‚Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.‘

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn’t always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

Liking money like I like it, is nothing less than mysticism. Money is a glory.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

With tech companies, whoever’s the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, ‚Is this the end of them?‘ And – there’s more – more times people think that’s the case than it really is the case.

I think you can give a pure artistic product if you understand how to build your own industry.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Older people sit down and ask, ‚What is it?‘ but the boy asks, ‚What can I do with it?‘.

I built a label at the same time I built a career.

I’m responsible for starting a whole new school of pretension.

Start a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.

There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

I don’t invest in ideas because ideas are a dime a dozen. I could steal the idea pretty quickly.

From my very first day as an entrepreneur, I’ve felt the only mission worth pursuing in business is to make people’s lives better.

I mean, I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money.

Genius always finds itself a century too early.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

It feels good being a restaurant owner because it’s part of my dreams of being the biggest mogul.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

Necessity… the mother of invention.

Apple took the edge off the word ‚computer.‘

Games is probably the biggest industry today that has gone really social, right. I mean, the incumbent game companies are really being disrupted and are quickly trying to become social. And you have companies like Zynga.

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

To be clever enough to get all that money, one must be stupid enough to want it.

People will visit Mars, they will settle mars, and we should because it’s cool.

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.

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

I was probably tall as a child, but I just stopped growing.

Money does not change people, people change.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

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.

Because, you know, resilience – if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you’d be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn’t a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.

My friends are people who like building cool stuff. We always have this joke about people who want to just start companies without making something valuable. There’s a lot of that in Silicon Valley.

I don’t care about money.

The idea that you encourage companies to take their innovative thinkers and think about the most needy – even beyond the market opportunities – that’s something that appropriately ought to be done.

I’m interested in movement, and I’m interested in money, and I’m interested in the movement of money.

The objective I propose is quite simple to state: to foster the infrastructure of democracy – the system of a free press, unions, political parties, universities – which allows a people to choose their own way to develop their own culture, to reconcile their own differences through peaceful means.

Design is the fundamental soul of a man-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or service. The iMac is not just the color or translucence or the shape of the shell. The essence of the iMac is to be the finest possible consumer computer in which each element plays together.

I purposely don’t talk about money, because people are already skeptical about TV preachers. But I do say that I want you to be blessed. To me, prosperity is having health, having great children, having peace, good relationships. It’s not about the money.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

I got an album concept called ‚Exit Strategy,‘ that might be one of my last ones. It’s a term they use in business when you build companies. You create an exit strategy as you make a company. You don’t wait till you’re five years in it; you create a exit strategy as you make the company.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.

Capitalism has shortfalls. It doesn’t necessarily take care of the poor, and it underfunds innovation, so we have to offset that.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

The march of the human mind is slow.

Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last, unless we learn how to avoid the risks.

The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.