"Capitalism works."
"America is built around this premise that you can do it, and there are an awful lot of people who are unlikely to have done it who did."
"The kind of environment that we developed Google in, the reason that we were able to develop a search engine, is the web was so open. Once you get too many rules, that will stifle innovation."
"If what we are doing is not seen by some people as science fiction, it's probably not transformative enough"
"We are currently not planning on conquering the world."
"Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems."
"Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine."
"We came up with the notion that not all web pages are created equal. People are – but not web pages."
"As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work."
"It's not enough not to be evil. We also actively try to be good."
"When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley."
"The name was supposed to be 'Googol,' which is the mathematical term for a 1 followed by 100 zeroes. It was before the Google spellchecker existed."
"When I was growing up, I always knew I'd be in the top of my class in math, and that gave me a lot of self-confidence."
"There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire. If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain - do something to make more money yourself. "
"We all know far too many stories where the third generation just destroys everything that the first two have built up, and I certainly hope my family is different because I've worked too hard and my father has worked too hard for it to be given away. "
"In the U.S. there are many people willing to work on $9 per hour, which is causing Tasmania to lose its famous apple industry and Australia to import more and more of its fruit and food from lower cost countries. In fact, all over Australia there are warning signs of us killing or restricting our own industries. "
"If you want to help the poor and our next generation, make investment, reinvestment and businesses welcome. "
"The millionaires and billionaires who chose to invest in Australia are actually those who most help the poor and our young. This secret needs to be spread widely."
"I think my father is nearly perfect. I think he's quite handsome, except a bit fat. "
"I have never met a geologist or leading scientist who believes adding more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will have any significant effect on climate change. "
“I’m addicted to winning. The more you win, the more you want to win.”
“There’s a wonderful saying that’s dead wrong. ‘Why did you climb the mountain?’ ‘I climbed the mountain because it was there.’ That’s utter nonsense…You climbed the mountain because you were there, and you were curious if you could do it. You wondered what it would be like.”
“When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal. And it has nothing to do with money. I mean, you buy clothes with money, and cars. But I really wanted to work with people I enjoyed working with, who I admired and liked.”
“When you live your life in different ways, it makes people around you become uncomfortable. So deal with it. They don’t know what you are going to do.”
“When you are the first person whose beliefs are different from what everyone else believes, you are basically saying, ‘I’m right and everyone else is wrong.’ That’s a very unpleasant position to be in. It’s at once exhilaration and the same time an invitation to be attacked.”
“You can’t spend as much money as I have, even if you try. I’ve been trying.”
“All you can do is every day, try to solve a problem and make your company better. You can’t worry about it, you can’t panic when you look at the stock market’s decline. You get frozen like a deer in the headlights. All you can do is all you can do.”
“The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.”
“I believe people have to follow their dreams—I did.”
“When I do something, it is all about self-discovery. I want to learn and discover my own limits.”
“I have had all the disadvantages required for success.”
“Being first is more important to me [than earning money]. I have so much money. Whatever money is, it’s just a method of keeping score now. I mean, I certainly don’t need more money.”
“Life’s a journey. It’s a journey about discovering limits.”
“Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.”
“The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it’s enormously useful in life.”
“When you innovate, you’ve got to be prepared for people telling you that you are nuts.”
“You have to believe in what you do in order to get what you want.”
“You have to act and act now.”
“To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, ‘I’d like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?’”
“If you do everything that everyone else does in business, you’re going to lose. The only way to really be ahead, is to ‘be different’.”
“Sorry losers and haters, but my I.Q. is one of the highest -and you all know it! Please don’t feel so stupid or insecure, it’s not your fault”
“I put my name on buildings because it sells better. I don’t do it because, gee, I need that.”
“My net worth fluctuates, and it goes up and down with markets and with attitudes and with feelings—even my own feelings—but I try.”
“Money is a little bit of a scorecard, but I don’t do it for the money. I do it because I really enjoy it. I love the creative process.”
“All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected.”
“What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.”
“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”
“In the end, you're measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.”
“You have to think anyway, so why not think big?”
“If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.”
“Everything in life is luck.”
“As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big.”
“I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.”
“Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.”
“If investing is entertaining, if you’re having fun, you’re probably not making any money. Good investing is boring.”
"All businesses need to be young forever. If your customer base ages with you, you're Woolworth's."
Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.
We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1.
It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction.
It's only when the tide goes out that you discover who's been swimming naked.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
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