Businessman quotes

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose.

You will be the same five years from now as you are today except for two things - the people you meet and the books you read.

I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... we may rightly call a New World... a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.

The soft stuff is always harder than the hard stuff.

The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

A man is successful in proportion to the extent to which he encourages men to develop themselves. It really takes a big man to believe in other men, to entrust one's affairs to them, and having done so to discharge anxiety from the mind.

I am very excited to be supporting one of the world's most visionary efforts to seek basic answers to some of the fundamental question about our universe and what other civilisations may exist elsewhere.

I still have the original tapes that had the BASIC that we brought from Boston to Albuquerque that had the first versions of BASIC on them.

In my own work, I've tried to anticipate what's coming over the horizon, to hasten its arrival, and to apply it to people's lives in a meaningful way.