I don't want to be liked. I want to be respected.

Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

I believe in two principles: Your attitude is more important than your capabilities. Similarly, your decision is more important than your capabilities!

If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your brain, not your strength.

Only fools use their mouth to speak. A smart man uses his brain, and a wise man uses his heart.

Success and profitability are outcomes of focusing on customers and employees, not objectives.

A good job isn't something you go out and find, it's something you discover while you're working.

Today is cruel. Tomorrow is crueller. And the day after tomorrow is beautiful.

If you’re still poor at 35, you deserve it.

EBay may be a shark in the ocean, but I'm a crocodile in the Yangtze River. If we fight in the ocean, we lose, but if we fight in the river, we win.

My mothering needed a tad more Mother Theresa and a lot less Lizzy Borden.

Life has always been a matter of putting one's feet down carefully

It feels great to have a #1 album.

As long as his strength permits, the poor mortal must always climb new mountains.

For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason.

I can easily ignore my detractors and feel the people who respond favorably.

Economic policy and decision making do not function in a political vacuum.

We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.

North Americans do not understand that you do not throw down human rights like bombs on the Iraqis.

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.