Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

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

How much you can learn when you fail determines how far you will go into achieving your goals.

A writer who doesn’t read is like a director who doesn’t watch movies.

There was virtually no aspect of twentieth-century defense technology that had not been touched by the hands and minds of female mathematicians.

Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Chess is beautiful enough to waste your life for.

I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

I like photographs of anything uninteresting. Maybe just two doors on a wall... The point is to be uninteresting.

I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.

I'm believing that miracles and blessings still exist.

When you're all singing together, it brings things together. I know the songs that my grandfather and my father sang.