As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

It's amazing how much data is out there. The question is how do we put it in a form that's usable?

Creating a strong business and building a better world are not conflicting goals - they are both essential ingredients for long-term success

A good company delivers excellent products and services, and a great company does all that and strives to make the world a better place.

Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .

I don't care where you are in the world, people are aware of what technology is available to others. If you're in Nairobi, you're certainly aware of the iPhone.

For all the progress, we recognize we're very far from the finish line.

Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.

I think the world is filled with so much hype and PR bull. Frankly, it all comes out in the end. Good or bad, I'd rather just let our accomplishments really speak for themselves.

All things being equal, I think people would still prefer to do business with their hometown companies. That's true in America, that's true in China, that's true in Germany.

I believe fuel cells will finally end the 100-year reign of the internal combustion engine. . . Fuel cells could be the predominant automotive power source in 25 years.

Push, push. Push harder!

Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

The circumstances surrounding your birth are not as important as the opportunity to live life.

I knew it would be you

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Curiosity takes courage. The most important promises are the ones you make to yourself. Pay Attention. Appreciate. Listen. Imagine.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

Organizations are, in the last analysis, interactions among people.

Robinson did not merely play at center stage. He was center stage; and wherever he walked, center stage moved with him.

Whoever lives among many evils just as I, how can dying not be a source of gain?