Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.Stephen Hawking

A successful person isn't necessarily better than her less successful peers at solving problems; her pattern-recognition facilities have just learned what problems are worth solving.Ray Kurzweil

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers.Sydney J. Harris

It's very hard to find someone who's successful and dislikes what they do.Malcolm Gladwell

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

If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.B. C. Forbes

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.Bill Cosby

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.Steve Jobs

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.Tom Brokaw

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.Guy Kawasaki

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.Aristotle

People ask me all the time, "How can I become a successful entrepreneur?" And I have to be honest: It's one of my least favorite questions, because if you're waiting for someone else's advice to become an entrepreneur, chances are you're not one.Michael Dell

I'm an inventor. I became interested in long-term trends because an invention has to make sense in the world in which it is finished, not the world in which it is started.Ray Kurzweil

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

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.Walt Disney

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.Stephen Hawking

The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.Malcolm Gladwell

The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.Bill Gates

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

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.Elon Musk

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.Theodore Roosevelt

We're still in the first minutes of the first day of the Internet revolution.Scott Cook

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.Harold S. Geneen

When you grow up you tend to get told that the world is the way it is and you're life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.Steve Jobs

Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.Richard Dawkins

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.Isaac Asimov

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.Edsger Dijkstra

Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.Malcolm Gladwell

Success is the child of audacity.Benjamin Disraeli

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.Confucius

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.Albert Einstein

What's right isn't always what's popular. What's popular isn't always right.Howard Cosell

When you talk to a human in 2035, you'll be talking to someone that's a combination of biological and non-biological intelligence.Ray Kurzweil

The uncreative mind can spot the wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot the wrong questions. The question has never been: Do we have the money? The question has always been: Do we have the resources?Jacque Fresco

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.Malcolm X

The most valuable thing anyone can invest in is themselves.Richard Hayden

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.Colin Powell

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.Henry Ford

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.Aristotle Onassis

Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.Napoleon Hill

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.Mark Twain

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.F. Scott Fitzgerald

An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.Jack Welch

I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.Bill Gates

The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.Peter Drucker

Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon.David Ogilvy

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.Franklin D. Roosevelt

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.Winston Churchill

The starting point of all achievement is desire.Napoleon Hill

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.Napoleon Hill

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.George Bernard Shaw

Sometimes people talk about conflict between humans and machines, and you can see that in a lot of science fiction. But the machines we're creating are not some invasion from Mars. We create these tools to expand our own reach.Ray Kurzweil

We are not taught to be thinkers, but reflectors of our culture. Let's teach our children to be thinkers.Jacque Fresco

Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.Malcolm Gladwell

If there is no struggle, there is no progress.Frederick Douglass

Freedom lies in being bold.Robert Frost

Persistence is to the c1haracter of man as carbon is to steel.Napoleon Hill

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.George Lucas