If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

The true entrepreneur is a doer

Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.

Base men who prosper are unenviable.

Between an uncontrolled escalation and passivity, there is a demanding road of responsibility that we must follow.

Never underestimate the narcissism of a writer.

The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.

I am working on a technical paper on compassion. So I am reading everything I can on the subject, including my own mind and heart.

Yet we can maintain a free society only if we recognize that in a free society no one can win all the time. No one can have his own way all the time, and no one is right all the time.

Once you the forces that govern behavior,it's harder to blame the behaver

Real optimism knows the difficulties but believes they can be overcome.