Everyone who's ever taken a shower has an idea. It's the person who gets out of the shower, dries off and does something about it who makes a difference.

I'm the only one who was predicting the Nintendo Wii would beat Sony's PlayStation 3.

A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

Hire for passion and intensity; there is training for everything else.

The ultimate inspiration is the deadline.

The true entrepreneur is a doer

I've always thought legal addictions are a great way to create a business. Starbucks is a wonderful example.

I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.

If you're willing to work harder than anybody else, you can create your own luck

Creativity is every company's first driver. It's where everything starts, where energy and forward motion originate. Without that first charge of creativity, nothing else can take place.

Any business that does not innovate will fail over time.

If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

There are sometimes beauties in a character which would never have appeared but for a defect, and defects which would never have appeared but for a beauty.

Success is sequential, not simultaneous

Used properly, cinema is the coolest thing in the world.

Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given, That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and Misery, Death's harbinger.

I think we do people a great disservice by putting them on a pedestal and not allowing them to be human.

My government career is over.

The word genius was whispered into my ear, the first thing I ever heard, while I was still mewling in my crib. So it never occurred to me that I wasn't until middle age.

Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric.