I don't know why you should be proud of something. It doesn't make you any better or worse. You are what you are.

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

To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.

There is lots of pressure to make a GOOD film. And not just a GOOD film but one that will somehow stand out in the sea of GOOD films.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music - that would be rest.

How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!

Develop a childlike fascination with life and people.

I don't consider myself any great sage of fashion or style, whatever people may want to think.

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Nobody likes to be picked on. Nobody.