He is the founder of leading companies such as "SpaceX" and "Tesla." He is known for his forward-looking goals, such as founding a colony on Mars.

Elon Musk

Patience is a virtue, and I'm learning patience. It's a tough lesson.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

People work better when they know what the goal is and why. It is important that people look forward to coming to work in the morning and enjoy working.

I'd rather be optimistic and wrong than pessimistic and right.

We're running the most dangerous experiment in history right now, which is to see how much carbon dioxide the atmosphere... can handle before there is an environmental catastrophe.

He was the most significant entrepreneur of his time and one of the richest in history; he founded Ford's car manufacturing company.

Henry Ford

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

Any man can learn anything he will, but no man can teach except to those who want to learn.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

Nothing can be made except by makers, nothing can be managed except by managers. Money cannot make anything and money cannot manage anything.

We are entering an era when we shall create resources which shall be so constantly renewed that the only loss will be not to use them. There will be such a plenteous supply of heat, light and power, that it will be a sin not to use all we want. This era is coming now. And it is coming by way of Water.

Two classes of people lose money; those who are too weak to guard what they have; those who win money by trick. They both lose in the end.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself.

He is an American entrepreneur, programmer, and philanthropist. He is the principal founder of Microsoft Corporation and one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Bill Gates

Life is not fair, get used to it.

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

If you can't make it good, at least make it look good.

It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

We all need people who will give us feedback. That's how we improve.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

He was an American entrepreneur and computer scientist, one of the founders of "Apple." He introduced products such as the iPod, Macintosh, and iPhone.

Steve Jobs

My favorite things in life don't cost any money. It's really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

Great things in business are never done by one person. They're done by a team of people.

Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

Things don't have to change the world to be important.

I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

He was an American animator and entrepreneur. He was president and CEO of the "Walt Disney Company" and is considered one of the fathers of film animation.

Walt Disney

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

Laughter is timeless, imagination has no age, dreams are forever.

Togetherness, for me, means teamwork.

By nature I’m an experimenter. To this day, I don’t believe in sequels. I can’t follow popular cycles. I have to move on to new things. So with the success of Mickey, I was determined to diversify.

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

We share, to a large extent, one another’s fate. We help create those circumstances which favor or challenge us in meeting our objectives and realizing our dreams.

He is an American-British entrepreneur, professional kickboxer, and social media influencer. He is known for being direct and controversial.

Andrew Tate

Resist the slave mind.

9's deserve a date, 6's only deserve tap water.

A man must physically protect his woman. But a woman must spiritually protect her man. She must bring positivity and joy.

Arrogance is the cause of most first world poverty.

Aspire to be a superhero. Not a normal person with a bigger house and nicer car.
You can have 10M right now but if your wife is average, no powerful brothers to call on and you're physically weak, you're just a rich loser, instead of a poor one.
Money is not the goal, power is.

Cost is the enemy of the poor man, so the poor try to save money. Time is the enemy of the rich man, so the rich try to save time.

Discipline is the key to success. Absolutely is. If you cannot force yourself to do something you don't want to do, how are you ever gonna put yourself through the suffering required for greatness?

Do the impossible and you'll never doubt yourself ever again.

Don't forget the brutal certainties of life. Some things are inevitable. When you decide on how you will live your life, it's best to keep them in mind.

Fear and respect are different things. The tool you deploy depends on the job.

Freedom will only come when you no longer trade your time for money.

Get important people to recognize your face. That's your way out.

High standards protect you from low-quality experiences.

I took the biggest possible risks for the biggest possible rewards. My entire life was a gamble. A roll of the dice. And I won. Now I own the casinos.

Intellect is nothing without energy. Ideas are nothing without energy. High energy people win.

Arrogance breeds complacency and complacency breeds failure.

Find a person who is as successful as you'd like to be, ask them what to do, do it and work hard.

Close your eyes. Focus on making yourself feel excited, powerful. Imagine yourself destroying goals with ease.

He was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is considered one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs, if not the most affluent American.

John Rockefeller

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It's to see my dividends coming in.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

The way to make money is to buy when blood is running in the streets.

If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

And we are never too old to study the Bible. Each time the lessons are studied comes some new meaning, some new thought which will make us better.

Competition is a sin.

The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.

If your only goal is to become rich, you will never achieve it.

He is an American entrepreneur. He is the inventor of Facebook, one of the first social networks and one of the most famous. He is also known to be one of the wealthiest people in the world.

Mark Zuckerberg

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

Our mission is to connect every person in the world. You don't do that by having a service people pay for.

When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place. So, what we view our role as, is giving people that power.

Figuring out what the next big trend is tells us what we should focus on.

A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

You get a reputation for stability if you are stable for years.

Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

Once you have a product that you are happy with, you the need to centralize things to continue growth.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

Larry Page

If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

We have a mantra: don't be evil, which is to do the best things we know how for our users, for our customers, for everyone. So I think if we were known for that, it would be a wonderful thing.

I can't really comment on rumors.

You need to invent things and you need to get them to people. You need to commercialize those inventions. Obviously, the best way we've come up with doing that is through companies.

Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.

You know what it's like to wake up in the middle of the night with a vivid dream? And you know that if you don't have a pencil and pad by the bed, it will be completely gone by the next morning. Sometimes it's important to wake up and stop dreaming. When a really great dream shows up, grab it.

Especially in technology, we need revolutionary change, not incremental change.

Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should be focusing on building the things that don't exist.

I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.

My grandfather was an autoworker, and I have a weapon he manufactured to protect himself from the company that he would carry to work. It's a big iron pipe with a hunk of lead on the head. I think about how far we've come as companies from those days, where workers had to protect themselves from the company.

My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.

I think it is often easier to make progress on mega-ambitious dreams. Since no one else is crazy enough to do it, you have little competition. In fact, there are so few people this crazy that I feel like I know them all by first name.

Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

The idea that everyone should slavishly work so they do something inefficiently so they keep their job - that just doesn't make any sense to me. That can't be the right answer.

Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

I do think there is an important artistic component in what we do. As a technology company I've tried to really stress that.

We can't have democracy if we're having to protect you and our users from the government over stuff we've never had a conversation about. We need to know what the parameters are, what kind of surveillance the government is going to do, and how and why.

It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

If you say you want to automate cars and save people's lives, the skills you need for that aren't taught in any particular discipline. I know - I was interested in working on automating cars when I was a Ph.D. student in 1995.

We don't have as many managers as we should, but we would rather have too few than too many.

For me, privacy and security are really important. We think about it in terms of both: You can't have privacy without security.

We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

I have always believed that technology should do the hard work - discovery, organization, communication - so users can do what makes them happiest: living and loving, not messing with annoying computers! That means making our products work together seamlessly.

I like going to Burning Man, for example. An environment where people can try new things. I think as technologists we should have some safe places where we can try out new things and figure out the effect on society. What's the effect on people, without having to deploy it to the whole world.

Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.

Big companies have always needed and cooperated in areas where it made sense.

Over time, our emerging high-usage products will likely generate significant new revenue streams for Google as well as for our partners, just as search does today.

Computing is kind of a mess. Your computer doesn't know where you are. It doesn't know what you're doing. It doesn't know what you know.

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

Sergey Brin

Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical and ultimately making a big difference in the world.

Solving big problems is easier than solving little problems.

I would like to see anyone be able to achieve their dreams, and that's what this organization does.

But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

Basically, we convert the entire Web into a big equation, with several hundred million variables, which are the page ranks of all the Web pages, and billions of terms, which are the links. And we're able to solve that equation.

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.

I had no dreams of such economic success. You should have fun and not be so weighed down by expectations.

Once you go from 10 people to 100, you already don't know who everyone is. So at that stage you might as well keep growing, to get the advantages of scale.

I wish there were a hundred services with which I could easily look at such a book; it would have saved me a lot of time, and it would have spared Google a tremendous amount of effort.

We've seen a massive attack on the freedom of the web. Governments are realizing the power of this medium to organize people and they are trying to clamp down across the world, not just in places like China and North Korea; we're seeing bills in the United States, in Italy, all across the world.

The revolution in deep nets has been very profound. It definitely surprised me, even though I was sitting right there.

We want Google to be the third half of your brain.

You always hear the phrase, money doesn't buy you happiness. But I always in the back of my mind figured a lot of money will buy you a little bit of happiness. But it's not really true. I got a new car because the old one's lease expired.

You do see more people that have been freed up over the last couple of hundred years to do work that is more about thinking about or creating things... and I would hope to see that trend continue.

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.

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.

I was interested in data mining, which means analyzing large amounts of data, discovering patterns and trends. At the same time, Larry started downloading the Web, which turns out to be the most interesting data you can possibly mine.

We have tried to define precisely what it means to be a force for good - always do the right, ethical thing. Ultimately, 'Don't be evil' seems the easiest way to summarize it.

I feel there's an existential angst among young people. I didn't have that. They see enormous mountains, where I only saw one little hill to climb.

We just want to have great people working for us.

Google actually relies on our users to help with our marketing. We have a very high percentage of our users who often tell others about our search engine.

If Google Books is successful, others will follow.

Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice - fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks.

Having been trained as a computer scientist in the '90s, everybody knew that AI didn't work. People tried it. They tried neural nets, and none of it worked.

It was the summer of 1998. At that point, we were just scrounging around to find resources; we had stolen these computers from all over the department, sort of.

He is an American entrepreneur and founder of Amazon, the world's largest e-commerce company. He is among the wealthiest people in the world.

Jeff Bezos

If you can't tolerate critics, don't do anything new or interesting.

There are two kinds of companies, those that work to try to charge more and those that work to charge less. We will be the second.

I believe you have to be willing to be misunderstood if you're going to innovate.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

If you don't understand the details of your business you are going to fail.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it's so easy to be motivated.

I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.

If you're competitor-focused, you have to wait until there is a competitor doing something. Being customer-focused allows you to be more pioneering.

Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.

He is a British entrepreneur and founder of the "Virgin Group." Thanks to his multiple companies, he is among the wealthiest people in the world.

Richard Branson

You don't learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, 'Oh God, I've got to do this today.'

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you're moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

To me, business isn't about wearing suits or pleasing stockholders. It's about being true to yourself, your ideas and focusing on the essentials.

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

He was an American entrepreneur and inventor. He is known for developing essential devices in the technology sector, such as photography, motion picture camera, and electric light bulb.

Thomas Edison

Anything that won’t sell, I don’t want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

When I have finally decided that a result is worth getting, I go ahead on it and make trial after trial until it comes.

A genius is often merely a talented person who has done all of his or her homework.

Unfortunately, there seems to be far more opportunity out there than ability. We should remember that good fortune often happens when opportunity meets with preparation.

I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that. I wish I had more years left.

I never did a day’s work in my life, it was all fun.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.

It’s obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

He is a Chinese entrepreneur. He is one of the wealthiest entrepreneurs and the richest person in China. He is known for his philanthropy in the education sector. 

Jack Ma

A good boss is better than a good company.

I always find people smarter than I am. Then my job is to make sure smart people can work together. Stupid people can work together easily, smart people can't.

Intelligent people need a fool to lead them. When the team's all a bunch of scientists, it is best to have a peasant lead the way. His way of thinking is different. It's easier to win if you have people seeing things from different perspectives.

If you want your business to succeed, it is critical to appoint enough female leaders.

Women balance the logic and the instinct. I would say this is the ‘secret sauce’ of the company.” “Men think about themselves more; women think about others more.

If you want your life to be simple, you shouldn't be a leader.

As entrepreneurs, if you're not optimistic, you're in trouble. So the people I choose, they have to be optimistic.

If you want to grow, find a good opportunity. Today, if you want to be a great company, think about what social problem you could solve.

Studying quotes to truly understand their meaning

Elon Musk

Henry Ford

Bill Gates

Steve Jobs

Walt Disney

Andrew Tate

John Rockefeller

Mark Zuckerberg

Larry Page

Sergey Brin

Jeff Bezos

Richard Branson

Thomas Edison

Jack Ma

Peter Jones

Andrew Carnegie

Ferruccio Lamborghini

Enzo Ferrari

Arianna Huffington

Matthew Boulton

Penny Streeter

Josh King Madrid

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