Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world.

The stuff that matters in life is no longer stuff. It's other people. It's relationships. It's experience.

It's better to have 100 people love you than to have 1,000,000 people like you.

If you want to create a great product, just focus on one person. Make that one person have the most amazing experience ever.

People went to Dell for the computers, but they go to Apple for everything… That’s the difference between a transactional company and a transformational one.

The American dream, what we were taught was, grow up, own a car, own a house. I think that dream's completely changing. We were taught to keep up with the Joneses. Now we're sharing with the Joneses.

Do things that won't scale; it will teach you.

Build something 100 people love, not something 1 million people kind of like.

The second thing I had to do was not to be reluctant as a leader...And when I started doing that, I realized that people are thriving from this, and that it's so much more helpful for people.

Everyone's got a moment or two in their life where something happens and you make a decision and then your entire life changes.

Designers + artists see potential in things where others do not. I think artists in many ways are the original entrepreneurs.

I love you. I love you, but I’m turning to my versesand my heart is closinglike a fist.

My get-up-and-go often leaves without me.

The only unique contribution you can offer the world is to be who you actually are and no one else.

Hell was invented to scare to death the unruly human mind and bring it to obedience.

It's never too late to learn how to love.

In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure.

Almost every rapper has a track that talks about their dreams.

When I recite poems onstage, I put myself into the very personal struggle and it grants tremendous perspective. At the same time you get another perspective on the poem you're reciting.

I do finish reading a script and say, Why are they making it and what are they talking about? I like to try and be responsible in my choices in that way.

I'm totally at home on the stage. That's where I live. That's where I was born. That's where I'm safe.