I get demoralized by organizations that start off with a mission and pull back when they find it's risky.

True disruption means threatening your existing product line and your past investments. Breakthrough products disrupt current lines of businesses.

The day before something is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.

Find that thing that you are passionate about, that you will do day or night whether someone pays you or not...because if you have that, you will have gold.

An expert is someone who can tell you exactly how it can't be done.

The only constant is change, and the rate of change is increasing.

Small teams driven by their passion with a clear focus can do extraordinary things. Things that only large corporations and governments could do in the past.

Companies have too many experts who block innovation. True innovation really comes from perpendicular thinking.

The best way to become a billionaire is to help a billion people.

Creating abundance [is] not about creating a life of luxury for everybody on this planet; it's about creating a life of possibility.

The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.

...to ride well to hounds is simply a diversion. It leaves no record. But already, my dear Charlotte, you have created something, a legacy.

Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.

I do this work for the common people and part of that work is creating a general awareness of such problems as they exist because my work is beyond class, religion and creed.

Love is a light that never dwelleth in a heart possessed by fear.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Think not thy love to God merits God's love to thee; His acceptance of thy duty crowns His own gifts in thee; man's love to God is nothing but a faint reflection of God's love to man.

Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means.

Malala Day is not my day. It is the day of every girl and every boy. It is a day when we come together to raise our voices, so that those without a voice can be heard.

The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.