Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.

To succeed you have to believe in something with such a passion that it becomes a reality.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

Be courageous. It's one of the only places left uncrowded.

Whatever you do, be different - that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can't think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you're different, you will stand out.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.

Speed, agility and responsiveness are the keys to future success.

My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.

We communicate with passion and passion persuades.

If you really didn't ever want to get wrinkles, then you should have stopped smiling years ago!

Money is good, but I prefer food, water, gold, weapon and energy.

So when it comes to Elvis and Joe, I have to trust my instincts, because they’ve gotten me here. And I have to write what I believe in, what I find moving.

Time is what we want most, but what we use worst.

Nothing in excess.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Athletes don't have much use for poking around in their childhoods, because, introspection doesn't get you anywhere in a race.

I never cease being dumbfounded by the unbelievable things people believe.

I loved my body and did not want it to perish; I loved my soul and did not want it to decay. I have fought to reconcile these two primordial forces.

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.