If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

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.

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.

‎Sincerity is the biggest part of selling anything -- including the Christian plan of salvation.

Ideas can't die, not because they are conceived by humans, but because time begets them.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

As president, improving cyber security will be an immediate and top priority for my administration.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining.

The first light had cast the first shadow.

The question is not can animals speak but can they suffer.

I got incredibly heavy boots about how relatively insignificant life is, and how, compared to the universe and compared to time, it didn’t even matter if I existed at all.