I must confess I've always had a couple of pinball machines in my home and really have enjoyed some of the old classics, like Fireball.

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

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'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.

Everybody makes mistakes, but when the same ones become consistent, they are commitments.

No member of a society has a right to teach any doctrine contrary to what society holds to be true.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe.

One I'm deeply into is Doris Kearns Goodwin's "Team of Rivals." I was the only person in the US who hadn't read it.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island.

Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle...

The only reason to write a new song is because you're tired of the old ones.

Grace is free only because the giver himself has borne the cost.

Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.