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"That's what Walt Disney did, and Hewlett and Packard, and the people who built Intel. They created a company to last, not just to make money. That's what I want Apple to be."
"You know, you keep on innovating, you keep on making better stuff. And if you always want the latest and greatest, then you have to buy a new iPod at least once a year."
"People are impatient. They want things to happen overnight, and have no idea of the circumstances and situations that can surround an individual at times."
"I want to encourage you by letting you know that there's hope for you and your situation whatever you are dealing with. God is intimately involved with every detail of your future and His desire is for you to be an overcomer."
"I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God."
"I want business to prosper and make a profit caused by business expansion and prosperity"
"Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen."
"Do it [stand-up comedy] because it feels like the right thing to do. Do it because you don't want to do anything else. There is something in you that does not want you to do anything else other than comedy."
"There's an open door now more than ever to be making any type of beats that you want."
"The HD revolution is over, it happened. HD won. Everybody wants HD."
"I never do anything I don't want to do. Nor does anyone, but in my case I am always aware of it."
"If you want to make a little money, write a book. If you want to make a lot of money, create a religion."
"I think there are different kinds of fame. There's fame which is plastic and about paparazzi and money and being rich, and then there's the fame, which is when no one knows who you are but everyone wants to know who you are."
"I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!"
"Life is not always not always what one wants it to be., but to make the best of it as it is the only way of being happy."
"When I really worry about something, I don’t just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don’t go. I’m too worried to go. I don’t want to interrupt my worrying to go."
"In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write."
"No story lives unless someone wants to listen. So thank you, all of you."
"If you do not want to explore an egoism you should not read autobiography."
"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man."
