Optimism is an essential ingredient of innovation. How else can the individual welcome change over security, adventure over staying in safe places?

Don't be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.

If ethics are poor at the top, that behavior is copied down through the organization.

Innovation is everything. When you're on the forefront, you can see what the next innovation needs to be. When you're behind, you have to spend your energy catching up.

Optimism is an essential ingredient for innovation.

Start with a growing market. Swim in a stream that becomes a river and ultimately an ocean. Be a leader in that market, not a follower, and constantly build the best products possible.

From the beginning at Intel, we planned on being big.

...people don't think in chu

When you say 'Yes' to others, make sure you are not saying 'No' to yourself.

The fact is I still have quite a few good years in front of me. I still improve.

The media's trying to attack my administration because they know we are following through on pledges that we made and they're not happy about it for whatever reason.

Your job is to control yourself. Your job is to discipline yourself. Your job is to deal with everything in life with affection, love and kindness.

When you come to the place where you can't do anything else, you must stand still and believe... When you can't do anything, let God do it all.

Mr. Complete Lack of Sympathy

This soft grass suggests 'softness' to me, but also at the same time 'lying-down-ness'.

My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth.

Composers often think in terms of music and not of an instrument itself.

Fond, flatt'ring world, adieu!