Winning ‚Motor Trend‘ Car of the year is probably the closest thing to winning the Oscar or Emmy of the car industry.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We’ve been so busy damning ourselves for years. We’ve done it all, and yet we don’t take credit for it.

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.

Apple’s market share is bigger than BMW’s or Mercedes’s or Porsche’s in the automotive market. What’s wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

I always felt like there was a certain standard of music that I had to do from the beginning, even when I didn’t have the recognition that I have now.

When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art.

I was the one who took football off the back pages and put it on to page one.

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

The first real thought that I had of something that I might do was to write for car magazines, because I always had a car thing.

The desktop computer industry is dead. Innovation has virtually ceased. Microsoft dominates with very little innovation. That’s over. Apple lost. The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years, or certainly for the rest of this decade.

The last thing you want is to not be recognized for all of the hard work you put in.

I meet young people who know me and are familiar with my stuff. They know the package. They might have cherry-picked five or six key tunes. That’s how it seems to work. I sometimes wonder if they realise they are not getting the whole context.

You shall, I question not, find a way to the top if you diligently seek for it; for nature hath placed nothing so high that it is out of the reach of industry and valor.

If you modestly enjoy your fame you are not unworthy to rank with the holy.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends.

I’m used to seeing it, but it’s weird having an Academy Award. You usually only see one of them on the TV show when they give them out, so it’s kind of surreal to have one in your house.

Getting recognized is insane. It just blows my mind. Like, someone who you don’t know at all can just be like, ‚Oh my God – are you Billie?‘

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

I’m the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him.

My reputation precedes me now.

WikiLeaks is a service to the population. Assange should get an award for – presidential medal of honor.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

If you have a success you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work.

There’s a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven’t. You just do the best you can.

It feels good to have your work respected again.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Concentration is my motto – first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don’t know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump ‚UNICEF.‘

Sometimes you recognize that there is a category of human experience that has not been identified but everyone knows about it. That is when I find a term to describe it.

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

When I came into this industry, I was never afraid to be myself.

I didn’t get a lot of awards as a player. But they did have a Bob Uecker Day Off for me once in Philly.

There’s something missing in the music industry today… and it’s music. Songs you hear don’t last, it’s just product fed to you by the industry.

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

I don’t believe I’ll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn’t go to Harvard.

Being acknowledged for your work is always a great accomplishment, whether it’s people in my city, kids in the street, all the way up to the Grammys.

We give speeches and pin ribbons onto uniforms, etch names into walls. And all that is fine, but too often, all those tributes, all those words aren’t always backed up by action. And that felt like such a stark contrast to me, because, as we all know, our military is all about action.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

They’ll forget all the rubbish when I’ve gone, and they’ll remember the football. If only one person thinks I’m the best player in the world, that’s good enough for me.

I consider myself to have one of the greatest voices in the industry.

Applause waits on success.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

To win MVP was a dream come true for sure, but there are guys who have done this multiple times.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

The first step on the way to victory is to recognize the enemy.

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine.

Like it or not, there are a lot of dance teachers in this country who respect me, whether they personally like me or not.

Everybody loves you when you’re six foot in the ground.

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

I hope when I’m dead I’ll be considered an icon, though.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

It’s cool to be recognised by your peers.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

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.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.