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

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.

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.

The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping.

In God, there is no lack and no recession.

I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

I'm just a Bolshevik with a laptop.

I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

For, to be a stranger is naturally a very positive relation; it is a specific form of interaction.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.

Injustice is a rule of the service, as you know very well; and since you have to have a good deal of undeserved abuse, you might just as well have it from your friends.

Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors.

Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.

Yes, it's true, I've been called the Laurence Olivier of spoofs. I guess that would make Laurence Olivier the Leslie Nielsen of Shakespeare.

You have to live what you write, or you have to know it. There are exceptions, like story songs, where you just have to have your facts straight. But I think you don't have to live a hard life to be a good or interesting songwriter.

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

With sociology one can do anything and call it work.

Beginning with a trip out to Ellis Island, I saw for myself where thousands of European immigrants took their first steps onto American soil, bringing with them nothing but their ambition: people such as Erich von Stroheim and Adolph Zukor.

Cousins are people that are ready made friends you have laughs with them and remember good times from a young age you have fights with them but you always know you love each other they are a better thing than brothers and sisters and friends cause there all pieced together as one.

I grew up in a wood cabin on Puget Sound in Manchester, Wash. My family taught me to appreciate the arts and the outdoors, and I still yearn for the absolute silence I experienced there when I was young.

I'm rather pleased with the new manuals. I see Inform now as a gauche young adult, having got past the stage of growing out of his shoes every few months.

I never, ever would have imagined the kind of career I've had. It just wouldn't have occurred to me that anything like this could have been possible. I didn't have any such aspirations. And I still can't believe my good fortune.