There’s no better place in the world for technology start-ups than Silicon Valley; there’s such an incredible well of talent and capital and resources. The whole system is set up to foster the creation of new companies.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

The rich don’t work for money – the rich invent money.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I grew up in a rural area called Vega Baja and I’m the first of so many talented people in this area to make it out. I take great pride to represent where I come from and I am able to show my fans, and everyone who listens and watches me, that anything is possible.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

Some artists just ruin their voices because they don’t know any better.

Starting your own business isn’t just a job – it’s a way of life.

I identify myself as a hustler since I was a young kid.

Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, ‚Thus far and no farther.‘

It’s safe to say headphones is a good business.

I’ve always been a singer. I never really decided I was gonna be a singer. It just kind of – I just sung a lot.

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

I love to play. And fortunately, I don’t know a lot of musicians that suck. I know a bunch of really good ones, and they’re always up for playing.

The vision is to figure out how there can really be dynamic entrepreneurialism in space.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

All of my brothers and sisters are very talented. They all sang all right.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

I own my own company, so I’ve never had businessmen telling me what to do or getting worried if something doesn’t sell. I’ve always had my own access to the public, because I started off making my clothes for a little shop and so I’ve always had people buying them.

You know, I’m just 6’9 and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.“

This rise of the new global mega-rich is happening as established institutions are falling. The fall runs the gamut from the music business and traditional media to the Detroit automakers who find themselves obsolete, outmaneuvered, and out-priced by entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Mumbai, Shanghai, and even Siberia.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

The first mistake in public business is the going into it.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand.

I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.

Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

If I heard someone else singing like me, I would buy it in a heartbeat.

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

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.

I’m not really an actor, I’m a reactor; I’m a pitchman. That’s what I do best. Nobody can do it any better.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

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

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Aside from singing, I’m also a dancer. I’ve been dancing since I was 8.

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

You cannot make a giant space company in your dorm room. Not today. And the reason is that the heavy lifting infrastructure isn’t in place.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

I literally coded Facebook in my dorm room and launched it from my dorm room. I rented a server for $85 a month, and I funded it by putting an ad on the side, and we’ve funded ever since by putting ads on the side.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

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

You know, God gave me a gift to do other things besides play the game of basketball.

Beethoven can write music, thank God, but he can do nothing else on earth.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

At age nine, I got a paper route. Sixty-six papers had to be delivered to sixty-six families every day. I also had to collect thirty cents a week from each customer. I owed the paper twenty cents per customer per week, and got to keep the rest. When I didn’t collect, the balance came out of my profit. My average income was six dollars a week.

Everybody could be an entrepreneur, but very few will become very rich entrepreneurs.

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

What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.

Cause I’m a musician, I’m not really good at posing and being a model, like, modeling.

Silicon Valley has some of the smartest engineers and technology business people in the world.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

In pop music, the public usually see the results – the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours – but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won’t make it.