Listen if you want to be heard

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Don't wait to be successful at some future point. Have a successful relationship with the present moment and be fully present in whatever you are doing. That is success.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

Apple's market share is bigger than BMW's or Mercedes's or Porsche's in the automotive market. What's wrong with being BMW or Mercedes?

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless.

With any part you play, there is a certain amount of yourself in it. There has to be, otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying.

What I cannot create, I do not understand.

The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.

Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk too much.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

I am easily satisfied with the very best.

He who thinks little errs much

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great

It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine

When things go wrong don't go with them