It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

We must restrict the anonymity behind which people hide to commit crimes. As citizens, we have a right to privacy. We have no such right to anonymity.

To turn $100 into $110 is work. To turn 100 million into $110 million is inevitable.

It’s the downside of a family business: anything good is because I’m somebody’s son; otherwise, I’m a schmuck.

The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.

If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.

Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.

Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

Friendship makes prosperity more brilliant and lightens adversity by dividing and sharing it.

All intelligent investing is value investing - acquiring more that you are paying for. You must value the business in order to value the stock.

The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious.

I don't fit into the bad side of American psychology. The British are much more intelligent and civilized than the Americans.

The message is that ultimate meaning is to be found in this present moment, infusing our everyday lives, here and now.

Now, what produces a want of demand A refusal to take from other countries the commodities which they produce.

You can either complain or look for opportunity in every problem. I prefer opportunity.

It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

Just keep believing. This is an opportunity where great things can happen and lets be great right now.