If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.

The common question that gets asked in business is, ‘why?’ That’s a good question, but an equally valid question is, ‘why not?’.

There’s lots of bad reasons to start a company. But there’s only one good, legitimate reason, and I think you know what it is: it’s to change the world.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

If everything seems under control, you’re not going fast enough.

A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life and the only way to be truly satisfied, is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work, is to love what you do.

The man who moves a mountain, begins by carrying away small stones.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything.

Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.

You don’t have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

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

The two most important days in your life is the day you were born and the day you find out why.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

If something is important enough, even if the odds are against you, you should still do it.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Fall seven times and stand up eight.

I was taught the way of progress is neither swift nor easy.

Think twice before you speak, because your words and influence will plant the seed of either success or failure in the mind of another.

Transportation made sublimation literal. It conveyed evil to another world.

The Muslim Brotherhood's declaration of war against the United States is real, and the Obama Administration is again asleep at the wheel, continuing a policy of self-destruction.

Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty.

I like to try to make the characters I play be as human as possible.

We don't take credit for our accomplishments. I can't tell you how many times you'll say to a woman, 'Oh God, what you did was so great', and they say, 'Really? I didn't think it was that good.'

When you play a sax, that saxophone is irreverent. It's noisy; it's a trickster... you cannot hide the saxophone in your hands, so it's a good teacher.

The lesson for the next U.S. president: Raise the taxes on fuel. A lot.

It is the job of the dog trainer to summon the dog's genetics, not to impose man's will over dog's.

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.

I don't really want to find myself face-to-face with 10,000 paparazzi. I just want to be comfortable.

I would, if checking boxes in a questionnaire, say I would oppose abortion except when the life of the mother is in danger.

Well, I never studied design and I went to art school to study art, you know, sculpture and things like that, and ended up making things like sculpture and started making chairs and jewelry together and that's how I started.

When does money run out of time The countdown begins when investable assets pose too much risk for too little return when lenders desert credit markets for other alternatives such as cash or real assets.

It would be nice if we redefined what we meant by 'war story.' If you're making $15,000 a year living in a certain area of Portland, trying to make it with three kids and no husband, that's a kind of war.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.

Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

For me, the difference between an 'ordinary' and an 'extraordinary' person is not the title that person might have, but what they do to make the world a better place for us all.

I'm like any working mom.

I am always more interested in what I am about to do than what I have already done.

Any kind of creative activity is likely to be stressful. The more anxiety, the more you feel that you are headed in the right direction. Easiness, relaxation, comfort - these are not conditions that usually accompany serious work.

That's kind of the fun part about acting. We do get the right to kind of get from A to Z any way we want, as long as we start at A and end at Z.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.