The real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

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.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

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.‘

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I’ve never met a genius. A genius to me is someone who does well at something he hates. Anybody can do well at something he loves – it’s just a question of finding the subject.

The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.

Originality is really important.

From the time that ‚Nevermind‘ came out in September of 1991 to the time that Nirvana was over, it was really just a few years, and a lot happened in those few years.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

I work hard to be able to set myself apart from everything else that’s going on in the trap genre.

For me, education has never been simply a policy issue – it’s personal. Neither of my parents and hardly anyone in the neighborhood where I grew up went to college. But thanks to a lot of hard work and plenty of financial aid, I had the opportunity to attend some of the finest universities in this country.

If I’m a star, then the people made me a star.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

Power means happiness; power means hard work and sacrifice.

For people who may think they know, or have snippets of who I am, you can attack that person. That’s part of being a public figure.

If you want to make computers that really work, create a design team composed only of healthy, active women with lots else to do in their lives, and give them carte blanche.

Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.

To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

I can’t keep somebody from being a star, and I can’t make somebody a star, and nobody can.

I suppose your security is your success and your key to success is your fine palate.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to plan to sell a company.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

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

John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

We do not rejoice in victories. We rejoice when a new kind of cotton is grown and when strawberries bloom in Israel.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

I mean Facebook is no longer a company, it’s a country. 2 billion users. It can influence what we think, what we believe, how we vote, what we buy, even how we feel.

I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn’t want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.

There is a difference between what technology enables and what historical business practices enable.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

Without failure there is no achievement.

Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it.

In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.

I am results-oriented.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

We’re taking all of the lessons that we have from New Shepard and incorporating them into New Glenn.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring, who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

When you go on your Twitter or look down your Timeline and it’s all great positivity – I love that. But at the same time, it can really divert you from what your purpose is or what you’re trying to do. And I’ve seen artists get caught up in that.

There’s an inherent danger in letting people think that they have perfected something. When they believe they’ve ‚nailed it,‘ most people tend to sit back and rest on their laurels while countless others will be labouring furiously to better their work!

I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.