I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

Being an entrepreneur isn't really about starting a business. It's a way of looking at the world: seeing opportunity where others see obstacles, taking risks when others take refuge.

Don't be afraid to assert yourself, have confidence in your abilities and don't let the bastards get you down.

You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.

If you don't encounter setbacks in your career, if you don't have doubts and disappointments , let me tell you, you're not dreaming big enough.

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

Progress is not inevitable. It's up to us to create it.

And because no matter who you are, if you believe in yourself and your dream, New York will always be the place for you.

Life is too short to spend your time avoiding failure.

If someone tells me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to find another mountain.

Entrepreneurship is having an idea to do something great and not entirely have a plan on how to do it but the drive and will power to make it work

Keep your maximum focus on the present and a little planning ahead because without the present there is no future

Joy isn't grounded in our circumstances

What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?

The more educated the people, the freer they are.

The sea drinks the air and the sun the sea.

I think that ideas exist outside of ourselves. I think somewhere, we're all connected off in some very abstract land. But somewhere between there and here ideas exist.

I know, but I do not approve. And I am not resigned.

Meditation changes your character.

When television came in, everybody thought that was the end of the movie business, which was not and is not.

The terrorist threat to American troops has decreased in some ways because there's not 175,000 in a dangerous part of the world. There's only 15,000.