Quotes

• Jensen Huang

  “Tokens are now profitable, so model makers are in a race to produce more.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It is very clear Compute is revenues.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It's the most popular opensource project in the history of humanity and it did so in just a few weeks.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It started the big bang of AI.”

• Jensen Huang

  “I've said before, if you have the wrong architecture, even if it's free, it's not cheap enough.”

• Jensen Huang

  “This is as big of a deal as HTML.”

• Jensen Huang

  “When you accelerate data processing, when you accelerate computing, you get the benefit of speed, you get the benefit of scale, but most importantly, you also get the benefit of cost.”

• Jensen Huang

  “The Chad GPT moment of self-driving cars has arrived.”

• Jensen Huang

  “He says, "Jensen sandbagged.”

• Jensen Huang

  “People have heard me say I believe that computing demand has increased by 1 million times in the last two years.”

• Jensen Huang

  “The greatest infrastructure buildout in history is underway.”

• Jensen Huang

  “We are an algorithm company.”

• Jensen Huang

  “For any human, this would be a dream come true.”

• Jensen Huang

  “It didn’t matter to us whether people believed in us. We believed in ourselves. We had the courage to follow our own path,”

• Jensen Huang

  “Back then, there wasn’t a counsellor to talk to … you just had to toughen up and move on,”

• Tim Cook

  “John is a brilliant engineer, a deep thinker, a person of remarkable character and a born leader.”

• Tim Cook

  “I just celebrated my 28th anniversary of being here at Apple, 15 years as CEO.”

• Tim Cook

  “We're about making the best products in the world that really enrich other people's lives.”

• Tim Cook

  “Apple TV has also earned its place among the most decorated names in entertainment with more than 800 wins and more than 3,400 nominations in the 6 years since launch.”

• Tim Cook

  “Twenty-eight years ago, I walked into Apple and I've loved every day of it since,”

• Tim Cook

  “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple and to have been trusted to lead such an extraordinary company,”

• Tim Cook

  “It has been the greatest privilege of my life to be the CEO of Apple,”

• Tim Cook

  “I'm not worried about artificial intelligence giving computers the ability to think like humans.”

• Tim Cook

  “Whatever you do in your life and whatever we do at Apple, we must infuse it with the humanity that each of us is born with.”

• Tim Cook

  “If we could just do that, Steve knew we could really change the world.”

• Tim Cook

  “We are all bound together into a single garment of destiny.”

• Tim Cook

  “So I told him, if you can't accept our position, you shouldn't own Apple stock.”

• Tim Cook

  “And if we are ever going to solve some of the hardest problems still facing the world today, everything from cancer to climate change to educational inequality, then technology will help us do it.”

• Tim Cook

  “He wanted to empower the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes to do their best work.”

• Tim Cook

  “I'm more concerned about people thinking like computers, without values or compassion, without concern for consequences.”

• Andy Jassy

  “There is not one tool to rule the world, and they want choice.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Most of the value companies derive from AI will be through agents.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And normally, that would have taken 40 or 50 people about a year to do, and we took 5 really smart people, AI forward-thinking people building on agentic coding tools and those 5 people rebuilt it in 65 days.”

• Andy Jassy

  “On the use of AI internally and for our current businesses, I think that the shortest first summary I could give you, Colin, is that I do not see a place in any of our businesses or any of the ways that we do work where we're not going to have giant impact on what we do.”

• Andy Jassy

  “If our chips business was a stand-alone business and sold chips produced this year to AWS and other third parties as other leading chip companies do, our annual revenue run rate would be $50 billion.”

• Andy Jassy

  “One of the interesting things that we see right now with the change in price and in supply on things like memory is that it is a further impetus pushing companies who have on-premises infrastructure into the cloud.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And there are so many new applications that none of us have ever imagined or dreamed we could build that are starting to be built and will be built.”

• Andy Jassy

  “We've never seen a technology grow as rapidly as AI.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Like that is a very different world of operating.”

• Andy Jassy

  “There are billions of people around the world who do not have access to broadband connectivity.”

• Andy Jassy

  “Our plan is largely the same, but we do view this as truly a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity where every application that we know of is going to be reinvented.”

• Andy Jassy

  “And with more than $150 billion in gross sales in 2025, we're now the second largest grocer in the U.S.”

• Andy Jassy

  “As I've said before, the largest absolute place that we see enterprises having success is in projects that are around cost avoidance and productivities.”

• Lisa Su

  “AMD is uniquely positioned to lead in this next phase of AI with leadership products across high-performance service CPUs and AI accelerators and the ability to optimize them together as fully-integrated rack-scale solution.”

• Lisa Su

  “Together with our previously announced OpenAI partnership, these engagements position AMD as a core partner to the world's largest AI infrastructure builders with deep co-engineering relationships and multiyear visibility into large-scale deployments.”

• Lisa Su

  “These results mark a clear inflection in our growth trajectory and a structural shift in our business.”

• Lisa Su

  “Data center is now the primary driver of our revenue and earnings growth.”

• Lisa Su

  “With this expanded visibility, we have strong and increasing confidence in our ability to deliver tens of billions of dollars in annual Data Center AI revenue in 2027 and to exceed our long-term growth target of greater than 80% in the coming years.”

• Lisa Su

  “Our agreement includes a custom GPU accelerator based on our MI450 architecture, co-designed to support Meta's next-generation AI workloads.”

• Lisa Su

  “Based on the demand signals we are seeing today and the structural increase in CPU compute requirements driven by Agentic AI, we now expect the server CPU TAM to grow at greater than 35% annually, reaching over $120 billion by 2030.”

• Lisa Su

  “Commercial was a key highlight in the quarter with sell-through of Ryzen Pro PCs increasing more than 50% year-over-year as Dell, HP and Lenovo broadened their AMD offerings.”

• Lisa Su

  “It really is one of the great turnaround stories of modern American business history,”

• Lisa Su

  “What I’ve learned over the last 18 months is incredible,”

• Lisa Su

  “Careers are very much by chance,”

• Lisa Su

  “Every day, I’m learning something new about how [AI] is going to be used.”

• Lisa Su

  “AI is the Most Important Technology in 50 Years”

• Lisa Su

  “The nice thing about my early career is I was lucky enough to have bosses who asked me all the time, ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ And I was like, ‘I don’t know. Let me think about [it]…. The ability to learn at each step was what really helped me in my career.”

• Satya Nadella

  “I think the basic transformation of call it, say, any per user business of ours, whether it's productivity, coding, security will become a per user and usage business.”

• Satya Nadella

  “Our AI business surpassed $37 billion ARR, up 123%.”

• Satya Nadella

  “This will drive TAM expansion and change the value creation equation across the entire economy.”

• Satya Nadella

  “When it comes to security, the physics of cybersecurity has changed as AI compresses the window between vulnerability and exploitation.”

• Satya Nadella

  “The number of customers with over 50,000 seats quadrupled year-over-year and Accenture now has over 740,000 seats, our largest Copilot win to date.”

• Satya Nadella

  “We are at the beginning of one of the most consequential platform [ shifts ] that will change the entire tech stack as agents proliferate and become the dominant workload.”

• Satya Nadella

  “It's the most important database in any company that is constantly changing every second.”

• Satya Nadella

  “I always say this is the UI for AI.”

• Satya Nadella

  “This is the next big step forward, which is a full Coding Agent built right into GitHub taking Copilot from being a pair programmer to a peer programmer.”

• Satya Nadella

  “And these middle innings are where all things happen, all things scale.”

• Satya Nadella

  “You know, we're just about getting into these middle innings of another platform shift.”

• Satya Nadella

  “Technologies will come and go, but the idea that this company can stay relevant by producing technology so that more and more people around the world can create more digital technology … that, I think, is the core thread of Microsoft.”

• Satya Nadella

  “We are going from a pair programmer to a peer programmer,”

• Satya Nadella

  “That very first product of ours — that BASIC interpreter for the Altair — I think says it all,”

• Satya Nadella

  “Nadella’s had the biggest transformation of a tech company potentially ever,”

• Brian Chesky

  “With loyalty, what I would say is, I've always believed the best loyalty program is people loving your product and coming back.”

• Brian Chesky

  “That being said, it's pretty remarkable how successful Airbnb has become given we're probably the only large travel brand in the world that does not have a loyalty program.”

• Brian Chesky

  “Well, the answer to this, again, we learned from Amazon, is that every subsequent offering we offer is less work than the prior offering because once you solve one service, the next service is only 20% different.”

• Brian Chesky

  “When tariff uncertainty led to fewer people traveling to the U.S. last year, they came to Airbnb and found somewhere else to go.”

• Brian Chesky

  “I do see Amazon as a pretty good inspiration for us.”

• Brian Chesky

  “AI, I think we should think of as an accelerant to everything.”

• Brian Chesky

  “The reason why is the stakes are high, you have -- you cannot hallucinate, you have to answer things very, very quickly because they are calling and they have problems.”

• Brian Chesky

  “So what we have been doing over the last few years is really getting our data warehouse really, really clean because your AI is only as good as your data.”

• Brian Chesky

  “And so I think generally, it's just about being -- moving faster and being more hands on.”

• Brian Chesky

  “I will say, though, that one of my principles is that Airbnb has to move at the speed of AI.”

• Brian Chesky

  “And I think this goes to my final point, which is I don't think anyone figured out AI for travel or e-commerce yet.”

• Brian Chesky

  “In a new world, an engineer can spin up 10 agents.”

• Brian Chesky

  “The reason we decided to start with this is we want to focus on the hardest problem in AI, which we thought was customer service.”

• Brian Chesky

  “Co-founding Airbnb was my discovery of travel—it was the moment I realized there was a bigger world.”

• Brian Chesky

  “There’s this whole way of traveling—I call it mass tourism—where you just stay in a hotel district and do things that the people who live there would never do,”

• Sundar Pichai

  “In terms of allocating TPUs, look, our first priority is making sure we are allocating what we need to compete at the frontier in terms of AGI development and so that is the foundation for everything we do.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “And just like AI Overviews, AI mode is driving an incremental increase in search queries overall, and we are now sending billions of clicks to websites every week through AI features in Search.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “On the speed of model releases, I do think you will see us continue to pick up pace.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “So take the time to find the thing that excites you more than anything else in the world, not the thing your parents want you to do, or the thing that all your friends are doing, or that society expects of you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “Don't lose that impatience.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “If you can do that, history will remember the Class of 2020, not for what you lost, but for what you changed.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “You will make the world better in your own way, even if you don't know exactly how.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The ability to ask a computer anything, anywhere, the very thing I've spent my last decade working on, is not amazing to you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The more access my family had to technology, the better our lives got.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It's because they don't realize that the progress of one generation becomes the foundational premise for the next, and it takes a new set of people to come along and realize all the possibilities.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “Be open, be impatient, be hopeful.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The long arc of history tells us we have every reason to be hopeful.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The only thing that got me from there to here, other than luck, was a deep passion for technology and an open mind.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The reason I know you'll prevail is because so many others have done it before you.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “My father spent the equivalent of a year's salary on my plane ticket to the US, so I could attend Stanford.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It's very conventional for every generation to underestimate the potential of the following one.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “The important thing is to be open-minded, so that you can find what you love.”

• Sundar Pichai

  “It took me a while to realize that the Internet would be the single best way to make technology accessible to more people.”

• Sam Altman

  “I think I am unusually good at projecting multiple things— years or a couple of decades into the future—and understanding how those are going to interact together,”

• Sam Altman

  “Personally, I think that voice is going to become one of the primary ways that people interact with AI.”

• Sam Altman

  “Uh, our goal is to make AI useful for everyone.”

• Sam Altman

  “Uh this is the biggest change to how software gets created that I have ever seen and we can't wait to see what you all will do with it.”

• Sam Altman

  “We think this is the best time in history to be a builder.”

• Sam Altman

  “I think the future is going to be very bright.”

• Sam Altman

  “AI has moved in the last couple of years from systems that you can ask anything to to systems that you can ask to do anything for you.”

• Sam Altman

  “You don’t fire a Steve Jobs,”

• Sam Altman

  “We really do feel just stronger and more unified and more focused than ever,”

• Sam Altman

  “But I wish there had been some other way to get there.”

• Sam Altman

  “But, ah, meeting Jack has been one of the great joys of my life. I’d be delighted to come hang out with Jack for literally any topic.”

• Sam Altman

  “is the equivalent of a median human that you could hire as a co-worker.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “But if every person in this company can increase their throughput by 20%, 30%, 50%, 100% then I think metering headcount growth and leaning in on AI investment is going to be well worth it.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “AI solves all that because essentially, the way that any user wants to interact with your services is up to that user.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “We've now surpassed 50 million Uber One members and 10 million drivers and couriers globally, both important milestones that reflect strong customer loyalty and expanding number of earner opportunities on our platform.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “And the breadth that we have in terms of operating in over 70 countries and many of them, both Mobility and Delivery is really unparalleled.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Despite a complex backdrop marked by war and weather, we delivered top line and profitability at or above the high end of our guidance.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Uber had an exceptional start to 2026, driven by strong execution and a continued focus on product innovation.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “AV Mobility trips grew more than 10x year-on-year, and we remain on track to be live in up to 15 cities by the end of the year, including new deployments in the U.S.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “We're also making strong progress across our strategic priorities, including autonomous, where we continue to believe a hybrid network will unlock significant long-term value.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “One of my secrets also is — really, I do give Brown credit for this — this balanced education that I kind of stumbled on,”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “The one common thread that I’ve seen that’s perfectly predictable in an unpredictable world is that great people stay great,”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Learning all of the… really important basics of engineering, but then marrying that with liberal arts, that really taught me to communicate in a compelling way, which is an absolute necessity when you’re in a leadership position.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “I think there’s a transition that needs to happen, which is to train students to use AI… You’re not going to be put out of work by AI, you’re going to be put out of work by the person who knows how to use AI better.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “Be curious about meeting new people, be curious about interests that are outside of your immediate field of education… and that curiosity will open you up to the world and open you up to opportunity.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “The American Dream is the single most incredible brand in the world. Everyone knows what the American Dream means.”

• Dara Khosrowshahi

  “I’m incredibly lucky to have emigrated to the United States at a time when the US was welcoming,”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “My view of AI is very different from many others in the industry.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “People will be more important in the future, not less.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Instead, I think that AI is going to amplify people's ability to do what you want, whether that's to improve your health, your learning, your relationships, your ability to achieve your personal career goals and more.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I hear a lot of people out there talk about how AI is going to replace people.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “My view is that human progress has always been driven by people pursuing their individual aspirations.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “But what we're talking about is delivering personal super intelligence for billions of people around the world.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I didn’t find any of the anecdotal examples that people used to be convincing that it was actually clear evidence that this was going to be harmful.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “I care a lot about not cracking down on the ways that people can express themselves and there’s, like, always been a lot of pressure to do that and censor our services,”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Whether our communities are houses or sports teams, churches or a cappella groups, they give us that sense that we are a part of something bigger.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “We should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure that everyone has a cushion to try new ideas.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Class of 2017, you are graduating into a world that needs purpose. It's up to you to create it.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “Today our society spends more than 50 times as much treating people who are sick as we invest in finding cures so people don't get sick in the first place.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “This is my story too -- a student in a dorm, connecting one community at a time, and keeping at it until one day we connect the whole world.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “It was my fault. I wondered if I was just wrong, an impostor, a 22-year-old kid who had no idea how things actually worked.”

• Mark Zuckerberg

  “At first I complained: You know, I'm kind of busy, I'm running this company. But she insisted, so I taught an after-school program.”

• Elon Musk

  “We need to sort of take a close look at spending and make sure that money is being spent in sensible ways and that it is not wasted or spent on fraudulent activities. And I got a lot of flack for this, obviously,”

• Elon Musk

  “There's far more power available from the sun than anything else by far.”

• Elon Musk

  “And the human hand is an incredible, incredible thing.”

• Elon Musk

  “But I think probably this is the fastest industrial scale-up since World War II in America.”

• Elon Musk

  “But if we injure even one person, it will be worldwide headline news.”

• Elon Musk

  “I don't think such a building exists anywhere on earth.”

• Elon Musk

  “In fact, I mean, probably the best way to scale total energy production in the United States is simply using batteries because there's, I think, around 1.2 or 1.3 terawatts of power production in the U.S., but the average power usage is only 0.5 terawatt.”

• Elon Musk

  “So, let's see, Optimus, as you've heard me say before, I think Optimus will be the biggest product ever, but it is a very complex problem to solve.”

• Elon Musk

  “The second richest person has been hovering around US$300 billion, so about less than one-third of what Musk can potentially be worth tomorrow,”

• Elon Musk

  “It’s very simple: It’s not okay to steal a charity. That’s my view and moreover if the defendants are found not guilty, this case will become case law. It will become precedent and give precedent to looting every charity in America,”

• Elon Musk

  “By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!”

• Elon Musk

  “It is obvious with the insane spending of this bill, which increases the debt ceiling by a record FIVE TRILLION DOLLARS that we live in a one-party country – the PORKY PIG PARTY!!”

• Elon Musk

  “I am the alpha in this relationship.”

• Mary Barra

  “I think before this becomes something that is just standard on every vehicle, there's a long time between now and then because we still have a long way to go from full autonomy where a vehicle can go anywhere at any time.”

• Mary Barra

  “I'm personally very excited about the growth opportunities that we have and the margin expansion opportunities that we have.”

• Mary Barra

  “There's intense pricing competition that frankly, is unsustainable in China in country solutions for the vehicles.”

• Mary Barra

  “Strong commercial demand helped us deliver record full-size pickup deliveries in our fleet business, and our U.S. incentive spend has remained well below the industry average for more than three years.”

• Mary Barra

  “We know there is more work ahead, but I believe we're building from a position of strength with a proven track record of execution.”

• Mary Barra

  “Well, first of all, we think sodium ion batteries are an emerging battery chemistry that is going to be attractive and have advantages over other chemistries from a stationary storage perspective.”

• Mary Barra

  “At the same time, our high-margin software and services revenues continue to grow rapidly with 1 million new subscriptions expected this year, contributing to more than $3 billion in recognized revenue.”

• Mary Barra

  “We need all the countries to work together, and we need an overall rate that allows us to be competitive, so we can win and continue to invest in U.S. manufacturing.”

• Mary Barra

  “Their commitment enables us to win in a dynamic market, and their efforts are leading us to raise our 2026 guidance for the second time this year.”

• Mary Barra

  “Our next major launch, the next generation Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra light-duty pickups, will further separate us from key competitors when they begin arriving in showrooms in December.”

• Mary Barra

  “We're also supplying battery propulsion technology to Lunar Outpost, which has been awarded $220 million NASA contract to build the next generation lunar terrain vehicle.”

• Mary Barra

  “We are onshoring significant manufacturing starting next year, which will bring our U.S. production capacity to more than 2 million units and further reduce our tariff exposure.”

• Mary Barra

  “I think from this country, we believe that autonomy is going to be extremely important on our vehicles, and I do believe there'll be pricing power, and we'll also continue to work to get the cost down.”

• Mary Barra

  “This strategy has driven 70 basis points of total company margin expansion over the last three years, while our broader peer set has seen margin reduction by 400 basis points.”

• Mary Barra

  “I am honored to serve as Chair of the Board of Directors. With the support of our Board, we will continue to drive shareholder value by improving our core business and leading in the transformation of personal mobility.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “At the end of the day, we're blessed with a lot of people who are great culture carriers across a broad spectrum.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “First of all, like I mentioned, how you evaluate people is their analytics, it's their brain power, it's their EQ, it's their heart, their soul, their culture carrier.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “Not just Goldman Sachs, who's doing a great job, if you didn't read their numbers this morning, because I did, you've got Stripe and PayPal and Cash App and Block and Chime and SoFi and Revolut, and they're good.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “They bullshit about M&A when they should be focusing on why they're not doing particularly well in an area or something like that.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “No one has all those things in a perfect way, and some of those things you learn, and some of those things you get better at.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I do think you might actually see a slowdown in growth, maybe a slowdown in 2027 or 2028.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “Like resolution did not work.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “You guys are the guys who know so much about this that should be making some of these recommendations to the regulators.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I think it's part of the reason why banks failed, if you go back 20 years ago.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “You can't just say, "Well, your ROE is going to go to 50% and stay there." If we had a 50% ROE and growing at 10% a year, we'd probably have, in 50 or 60 years, you'd probably be 100% of the GDP of the United States of America.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “The ultimate beneficiary of AI will be our customers.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “The board made a decision to go ahead with making two co-presidents, which will be preparing them to do far more at the company, be prepared.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “You want it across the whole company, not weighted to investment banking or trading or just big CEOs, but also weighted to the fact that we've got 300,000 employees around the world.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “I do also want to point out, maybe you could be ahead of other people, kind of, but what always happens is the benefit accrues to the customer, not to JPMorgan in this case.”

• Jamie Dimon

  “If they think we should hold more capital, they should ask us to hold 10% more, and I'd be happy to do that.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “A study in the last two years of people entering the workforce out of college showed that 57 percent of boys entering, or men, I guess, are negotiating their first salary, and only seven percent of women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Number one: sit at the table.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And the problem is this: Women are not making it to the top of any profession anywhere in the world.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Of all the people in parliament in the world, 13 percent are women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “He changed exactly one word: "Heidi" to "Howard." But that one word made a really big difference.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “The bad news was that everyone liked Howard.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And so I said, "Did you just move into this office?" And he said, "No, we've been here about a year." And I said, "Are you telling me that I am the only woman to have pitched a deal in this office in a year?" And he looked at me, and he said, "Yeah.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Because what the data shows, above all else, is one thing, which is that success and likeability are positively correlated for men and negatively correlated for women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “If a woman and a man work full-time and have a child, the woman does twice the amount of housework the man does, and the woman does three times the amount of childcare the man does.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Because no one gets to the corner office by sitting on the side, not at the table, and no one gets the promotion if they don't think they deserve their success, or they don't even understand their own success.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “190 heads of state -- nine are women.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And three, don't leave before you leave.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “The numbers have not moved since 2002 and are going in the wrong direction.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And if two years ago you didn't take a promotion and some guy next to you did, if three years ago you stopped looking for new opportunities, you're going to be bored because you should have kept your foot on the gas pedal.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I think there's a really deep irony to the fact that actions women are taking -- and I see this all the time -- with the objective of staying in the workforce actually lead to their eventually leaving.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “In the high-income part of our workforce, in the people who end up at the top -- Fortune 500 CEO jobs, or the equivalent in other industries -- the problem, I am convinced, is that women are dropping out.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “And most importantly, men attribute their success to themselves, and women attribute it to other external factors.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I want my son to have a choice to contribute fully in the workforce or at home, and I want my daughter to have the choice to not just succeed, but to be liked for her accomplishments.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “A recent study in the U.S. showed that, of married senior managers, two-thirds of the married men had children and only one-third of the married women had children.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “We also have another problem, which is that women face harder choices between professional success and personal fulfillment.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I've become convinced that we've made more progress in the workforce than we have in the home.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “I think a world where half of our countries and our companies were run by women, would be a better world.”

• Sheryl Sandberg

  “Don't make decisions too far in advance, particularly ones you're not even conscious you're making.”

• Bill Gates

  “In fact, if there's one positive thing that can come out of the Ebola epidemic, it's that it can serve as an early warning, a wake-up call, to get ready.”

• Bill Gates

  “If anything kills over 10 million people in the next few decades, it's most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war.”

• Bill Gates

  “And as you look at what went on, the problem wasn't that there was a system that didn't work well enough, the problem was that we didn't have a system at all.”

• Bill Gates

  “There's no need to panic.”

• Bill Gates

  “We're not ready for the next epidemic.”

• Bill Gates

  “There's a group of handsome epidemiologists ready to go, they move in, they save the day, but that's just pure Hollywood.”

• Bill Gates

  “But we need to get going, because time is not on our side.”

• Bill Gates

  “The World Bank estimates that if we have a worldwide flu epidemic, global wealth will go down by over three trillion dollars and we'd have millions and millions of deaths.”

• Bill Gates

  “So far the score is germs: 1, people: 0.”

• Bill Gates

  “Today the greatest risk of global catastrophe doesn't look like this.”

• Bill Gates

  “We have advances in biology that should dramatically change the turnaround time to look at a pathogen and be able to make drugs and vaccines that fit for that pathogen.”

• Bill Gates

  “We need a medical reserve corps: lots of people who've got the training and background who are ready to go, with the expertise.”

• Bill Gates

  “When I was a kid, the disaster we worried about most was a nuclear war.”

• Bill Gates

  “You can have a virus where people feel well enough while they're infectious that they get on a plane or they go to a market.”

• Bill Gates

  “The source of the virus could be a natural epidemic like Ebola, or it could be bioterrorism.”

• Bill Gates

  “Not missiles, but microbes.”

• Bill Gates

  “So next time, we might not be so lucky.”

• Bill Gates

  “We need to do simulations, germ games, not war games, so that we see where the holes are.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “Ken Griffin isn’t a villain, he hasn’t hurt anybody, he’s not hurting New York, in fact quite the opposite.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “The way … you make $1 billion, or $100 million or $10 million or anything, is you create a service that people love, and if millions of people choose your service, you’re going to end up with a billion dollars,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “It’s kind of a tale of two economies,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “You have a bunch of people in this country who are doing really well, but you also have a bunch of people in this country who are struggling.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “So what’s happening here is, politicians are using the kind of age old technique ... you know, picking a villain and pointing fingers, but the problem is that doesn’t solve anything,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “You could double the taxes I pay, and it’s not going to help that teacher in Queens,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “How about we start by having the nurse in Queens not pay taxes?”

• Jeff Bezos

  “It's because investors at this moment haven't learned yet how to discriminate between good ideas and bad ideas, and that's OK, because the good ideas will pay for all of the losers,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “Even if it does turn out to be a bubble, you shouldn't worry about it because the bubble is driving investment and a lot of the investment is going to turn out to be very healthy,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “A lot of investors lost money on certain things, but we still got to keep all the life-saving drugs that they had invented.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “I would caution people who think it’s all science fiction to be a little cautious with their judgment, because it is real, it is happening.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “There's something very powerful about zero.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “1% of taxpayers pay 40% of all the tax revenue; the bottom half pay only 3%. I think it should be zero,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “But you can't hoard investment. So if you have stock in a company, that's not hoarding. That's investing. And investing is more like farming,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “I think that extra 10 years of experience actually improved the odds that Amazon would succeed,”

• Jeff Bezos

  “There's a lot of stuff you would learn in a great company that will help you, and then there's still lots of time to start a company after you have absorbed it.”

• Jeff Bezos

  “The only time I ever think about it, genuinely, is when a doctor asks me to fill out a form.”

• Viola Davis

  “The other collaborators – that’s not their life work, telling stories, making them better and wanting to make them better. One of the great things for me is she just kept pushing me – sometimes I walk away too soon. I shouldn’t, and I didn’t in this case.”

• Viola Davis

  “because what it encapsulates is someone stepping into their purpose. It gives me goose bumps. And that’s how I felt about Michael B Jordan.”

• Viola Davis

  “Michael B Jordan is an incredible human and an incredible leader,”

• Viola Davis

  “It was a chance to live in another world,”

• Viola Davis

  “That’s just 30% of who I am in that book. There’s a lot of things you don’t remember, a lot of things you can’t fit in, a lot of things that you haven’t processed yet and a lot of things you don’t want to share,”

• Viola Davis

  “Homebody, totally. I'm total introvert,”

• Viola Davis

  “To make it so it's not a lightning rod. And I think that's why this story is so good, why it's so powerful, because we're going into areas that people aren't [talking about]. We need to talk about it.”

• Viola Davis

  “I felt a responsibility to women who have been sexually assaulted and raped, especially children, as I am one of them,”

• Viola Davis

  “All of it. Every single bit of my story influenced all of these characters. I feel that it is my duty to honor six-year-old Viola. I can't sort of think about her dimples without thinking about the fact that she always felt ugly.”

• Viola Davis

  “I can change the way Black women are seen,”

• Viola Davis

  “Once I leave Juilliard, most of what I’ll be asked to do are Black characters which people will not feel that I am Black enough,”

• Viola Davis

  “I feel that as a Black actress, I’m always being tasked to show that I have range by doing white work,”

• Viola Davis

  “I think I decided to be an actor because acting was just a cosmic carrot for a much higher journey. A journey in finding me, finding a sense of belonging, finding my worth,”

• Viola Davis

  “Everything! I was in shock that I could do it. When I started, I’m not gonna lie, I told my husband: ‘I don’t know if this is gonna work, but I’m gonna do the best I can.’ Then, all of a sudden we were doing it… and I’m still alive!”

• Viola Davis

  “I approached her like a real woman,”

• Simone Biles

  “I knew the backlash I would face. I worried about being cancelled,”

• Simone Biles

  “The world doesn’t need you to be perfect,”

• Simone Biles

  “It needs you to be bold, to care and to keep going even when things don’t go as planned.”

• Simone Biles

  “But I also knew one thing – I wasn’t letting myself down.”

• Simone Biles

  “I feel like if you ask me next year, maybe, I’d be like, ‘Oh, I miss that.’ But it’s crazy because I don’t get up every day and think like, ‘Oh, I wish I could flip.’ I flipped for 22 years of my life, so being right side up is kind of nice.”

• Simone Biles

  “There’s such high expectations on me that I’m supposed to win, so whenever I do win or get whatever medal that is, I feel relief off my shoulder like, ‘I did it. I’m done. Let’s move on to the next,’”

• Simone Biles

  “Whenever I see somebody else accomplish it, I feel like that’s the excitement I get because I’ve seen the hours and I wish I could celebrate myself like that,”

• Simone Biles

  “A couple years ago, I didn't think I'd be back here, so competing and walking away with four medals, I'm not mad at it. I'm pretty proud of myself.”

• Simone Biles

  “I'm doing what I love and enjoying it, so that's all that matters to me.”

• Simone Biles

  “We’ve been able to take care of our hair better and take care of our beauty routines better, because it’s self-taught,”

• Simone Biles

  “I understand and realize I have to take care of my physical appearance as well as my mental,”

• Simone Biles

  “He always says, ‘Smile like you’re the best out there. Nobody can do it like you. You have to trust your training [and] trust your process,’”

• Simone Biles

  “I’m finally learning to love my hair and the texture that I have and the styles that I can do,”

• Simone Biles

  “But I won’t be able to do my career forever.”

• Simone Biles

  “I'm making a bigger effort to take care of my mind and my body, which includes therapy once a week. Thursdays are my therapeutic days, a moment for myself,”

• Meryl Streep

  “I just saw ‘Death of a Salesman’ last night. I can’t believe Laurie Metcalf just blew my mind... all of them! And I thought, ‘I better just retire, because I don’t know how the fuck she did that.’ What an artist.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I go into everything, not knowing how people do it. And you sort of feel and listen and pick it up as you go along. But I don’t have a method — when you say ‘Oh, you went method,’ I don’t even know what ‘the method’ is. I never studied it.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I think we tend to Marvel-ize the movies now. We got the villains and we got the good guys, and it’s so boring,”

• Meryl Streep

  “We should not be surprised that these profound changes come at a steeper cost than we originally thought. We should not be surprised that not everyone is actually cool with it.”

• Meryl Streep

  “I feel so lucky to be able to come back to something we did 20 years ago. Who gets to do that? We've had a whole lifetime. Look at Stanley Tucci! He's blossomed! [Emily Blunt] blossomed at birth.”

• Meryl Streep

  “It’s cross culture. We’ve just been around the world with this. The reaction is the same in Mexico City as Tokyo, as Seoul, as Shanghai... I honestly was surprised. I really was surprised by the universality of the response and from so many different kinds of people.”

• Meryl Streep

  “It makes me so happy! Would we have fashion without gay people?”

• Meryl Streep

  “It’s compensatory. The advancements of women in the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of this one have been destabilizing. It’s as if women have to say, 'I’m little. I can’t walk in these shoes. I can’t run. I’m bare, not threatening,'”

• Meryl Streep

  “I think the most… powerful message that our current first lady sent was in the coat that said ‘I Really Don’t Care, Do U?’ when she was going to see migrant children who were incarcerated,”

• Meryl Streep

  “History is shaped not only by those who make it, but by those who ensure it is remembered. I am proud to continue supporting this essential work so that future generations inherit a history that is both truthful and complete,”

• Meryl Streep

  “The demand that grew during those years for pesticide-free and sustainably grown food gave farmers confidence there would be a market for organics, and they undertook the cost of transitioning their fields to sustainable practice.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Once you know how to search out and credit the facts around certain problems, you are called on by your conscience to act on them. The Vassar conscience rings a bell in your head; it’s a call to action in your heart.”

• Meryl Streep

  “She was a mentor because she said to me, 'Meryl, you're capable. You're so great.' She was saying, 'You can do whatever you put your mind to. If you're lazy, you're not going to get it done. But if you put your mind to it, you can do anything.' And I believed her.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Go to the [Vassar] Farm. Walk through the gate and into the 500 red, green, and golden acres of inspiration of the Ecological Preserve. Breathe in courage, exhale resolve. And know that every action you take—or don’t take—matters.”

• Meryl Streep

  “Mothers and Others, in the 10 years that it operated, grew from 20 of my neighbors to a membership of 35,000 informed consumers,”

• Meryl Streep

  “One value of a Vassar education is that it kind of dooms you to a life of awareness …”

• LeBron James

  “I still truly love this game, and I have more to give,”

• LeBron James

  “This is my last decision. I'm not going for money. I'm not going for family. What am I really playing for at this point?”

• LeBron James

  “I still want to sacrifice. I still want to work. I still want to grind. I still want to compete, to win and to have a chance at the feeling of winning another championship.”

• LeBron James

  “He’s the one who’s given me so much game and has taught me so much.”

• LeBron James

  “One of the biggest factors as far as when the process for me becomes overbearing, and I don’t want to show up to the arena five hours earlier, or I don’t want to be at practice two and a half hours before practice start,”

• LeBron James

  “So many other factors that I’m factoring in right now on what not only best fit me as a player, what best fit me as a person, what best fit me as my happiness, and also with my family as well.”

• LeBron James

  “One of my main goals… is to open doors for kids that look like me growing up in the inner city,”

• LeBron James

  “In sports, there's always conversations, like, 'When is he going to retire? He needs to retire. He's this age. He's that age,'”

• LeBron James

  “I want to compete at a high level. I want to join a franchise that kind of shares the same motto as myself and that's practicing championship habits every day, but trusting the process more than anything ...”

• LeBron James

  “So everyone feels coming into the season, thinking, 'This could be our year.' Every fanbase feels like this could be our year as well.”

• LeBron James

  “There's been eight straight years of different champions,”

• LeBron James

  “But, why? Why? Why are we trying to force people that are still doing what they do at a high level, why are we trying to force a narrative of it's time to retire?”

• LeBron James

  “I heard Warriors ... I heard Philly ... Miami ... This guy just told me to come to the Yankees.”

• LeBron James

  “That was a hell of a question and some of the media people in here probably should learn from you, young fella,”

• LeBron James

  “You ask somebody who grew up in the LeBron era ... they're still gonna say Jordan.”

• LeBron James

  “If there's a general manager and he's eyeballing all of us on a baseline, with the No. 1 pick, it's gonna be hard not to take me, champ,”

• LeBron James

  “You ask somebody that grew up in the Jordan era, they're gonna say Jordan,”

• LeBron James

  “Rest his soul, Kobe will say the same thing. Magic will say the same thing. Bird will say the same thing. Shaq could say the same thing. The late great Wilt. Kareem. I don't think none of us are going to take somebody else.”

• Bono

  “This place saved our musical lives,”

• Bono

  “It’s the sound of four men, who feel like their lives depend on it. I remind them, they do,”

• Bono

  “Nobody needs a new U2 album unless it’s an extraordinary one. I’m feeling very strong about it.”

• Bono

  “songs for the kitchen, songs for the speedway, the garage [and] songs for every part of your life”

• Bono

  “I can pull off the swagger. I can do the macho thing. I’m Irish. I can give you lots of that. But at this point, I just thought it would be better to be closer to who I am when I’m at my most insecure, I suppose.”

• Bono

  “For such a demonstrative performer as I am with U2, (I learned) that just turning your head is enough.”

• Bono

  “The lens will know if you’re lying.”

• Bono

  “The face, after a while, it just is a map. It tells a story of where you’ve been,”

• Bono

  “There’s a sense of undressing yourself in taking off the armor and your sword and your shield and just letting people in,”

• Bono

  “I ended up, as much as loving my father, I ended up liking him,”

• Bono

  “No, so I was in a different part of the class. But I remember that feeling, you know, because I knew I could do this. I know I don't know how to play an instrument, sir! But I have these melodies in my head, and I have words and I have things I want to say.”

• Bono

  “How casually our destiny arrives,”

• Bono

  “There is no single strand to the creative life,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “One of the things I realized over the last month was that, we’re seeing such progress with Manas. I need to get back to founder mode,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “And so you don’t want to be saying, ‘Hey, as opposed to being the England of the Industrial Revolution, we’re going to be the Poland of the Industrial Revolution.’”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Like if you do the analysis of rising electricity costs, it has no correlation with the data centers, or even what is relatively modest AI usage so far. And yet all blame for increasing electricity prices today is AI.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “I obviously feel enormously bad that it took me a few years to understand kind of what the monstrosity was,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Just about everything is going to be blamed on AI,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “The talent race to your average American looks crazy. The amount of money you're paying individuals in order to do this,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “The fact that universities have not changed, and it's like, 'Well, but I already have my curriculum, and this is the way I've been teaching it for the last X decades,' etc.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Wishing for the 1950s past is a bad mistake,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “Every month, every year, every week that there’s earlier [AI] access causes human goodness,”

• Reid Hoffman

  “XAI is, as Elon himself has described, it's a complete train wreck for its kind of building of foundational models and other kinds of things.”

• Reid Hoffman

  “It wasn’t like we rolled in, and it was like ‘Oh, that was fun and easy,’”

• Reid Hoffman

  “OK, there was a certain amount of blood lost on that one.”

• Lionel Messi

  “We'll try to put on a good match, but I hope he and his team don't put on a good one,”

• Lionel Messi

  “I have never been a believer or thought that anything was destined to occur, but I am beginning to have my doubts. This is beyond all reasonable explanations,”

• Lionel Messi

  “I've followed him a lot because he plays for a club I love so much. He has a chance to achieve something historic — we're going to try to make sure that doesn't happen this time.”

• Lionel Messi

  “but I hope he [Yamal] and his team don’t put on a good one.”

• Lionel Messi

  “I’ve followed him a lot because he plays for a club I love so much. He has a chance to achieve something historic. We’re going to try to make sure that doesn’t happen this time.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Messi also credited Argentina's fighting spirit, saying the squad's refusal to give up had once again carried them through a difficult situation.”

• Lionel Messi

  “It was a moment of pure happiness and relief; we wanted to stay in the tournament. We didn't want today to be the end, we didn't want to go home.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Turning a match around like that – coming back from 2-0 down – it wasn't easy, especially given how this World Cup is playing out and the fact that no-one is just rolling over,”

• Lionel Messi

  “Well, obviously as you get older, you lose things that you had when you were younger — things like speed, reaction time, or seeing the game faster, making decisions,”

• Lionel Messi

  “We’re coming off winning the last World Cup, and being able to defend it on the field again is spectacular because it’s always a dream to play with the national team, especially in official competitions, so hopefully God will allow me to do it once again.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Sometimes your mind is faster than your legs. But I think I always tried to overcome those things and keep trying to be at my best and get the most out of my physical abilities, my game, and I tried to adapt to the new circumstances.”

• Lionel Messi

  “Every team should have the opportunity to bring in players and sign whoever each team wants without limitations or rules for players to bring them in,”

• Lionel Messi

  “And I would like to be there. To feel well and to be an important part of helping my national team, if I am there. And I’m going to assess that on a day-to-day basis when I start preseason next year with Inter and see if I can really be 100%.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “The fact that we have mutual respect is what, to some extent, defines civilization. I don’t think that’s something that can be entirely imposed by, for example, a religious framework,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “For us, it was just the sheer magnitude of it's 'The Odyssey,' it should be hard. We're going to go out there and we're going to make it as well as we can,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “making films on the big screen is very much an attempt to get back to that experience that I had as a kid.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “So you have to ask the actors on a longer scene to just stay in the emotional state that they're in, however intense that is, and then you quietly reload the camera and keep everybody focused and then start the scene again.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I make films for audiences, for the theater, for the cinema, and so for me, the movie's really not done until the audience kind of tells me what it is. That's what completes the film. It's exciting, but it's scary,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “He loves trying out new things that he hadn’t done before, same as myself. We like to spend a lot of time in real places, on real locations, having stuff in front of the camera that is tangible and tactile.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “When you shoot on IMAX, you have to think a lot about where you put your camera, because it's so big, it's difficult to move. And you don't have zoom lenses,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I’ve had an image of that horse sinking into the sand in my head for 20 years.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “When I was briefly attached to direct Troy, I did a lot of thinking about the Trojan Horse and how I would portray that and make it credible,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “after years of driving towards heavily virtual environments, we’re seeing a renewed interest in more tactile, more real forms of storytelling.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “And while that doesn’t mean that every aspect of the technology is useless or meaningless, in filmmaking it’s hitting at exactly the wrong time.”

• Christopher Nolan

  “They see it for what it is very quickly — and it’s much easier for them to identify it, because it grew out of an online world they know really well,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I always want to feel like I can give them an experience they haven’t had before,”

• Christopher Nolan

  “I re-filmed them off the screen and cut them in, thinking no-one would notice”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “At the end of the day, is it too much to ask to bring out the alien? You bring out the alien, then no one will ever have to ask you again: ‘Do you believe in aliens?’ … That’s kind of what I’m waiting for, instead of fuzzy videos.’”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “So you're [going to] have a visiting alien from another planet that has no DNA in common with us at all, or no DNA at all. And somehow it's [going to] walk on two legs with a head, eyes, nose, mouth. So I would be shocked if it was humanoid,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “I even picture the scenario in my head: I’m sitting out there alone, and a beam of light comes down,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “If China says we’re going to put military bases on Mars, we’re there in 10 months,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “We have mapped the moon and Mars to higher precision than the bottom of the ocean.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “If you’re going to pitch tent on the moon, you want to do it where you have free water,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “When people look up, they dream more,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “The promise of economic return. The mandates of your king or the royalty or deity. But the biggest driver of all is the ‘I don’t want to die’ drive.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “That brought a helicopter with it. If the human is going to do science, they’re going to bring some apparatus to make the measurement. So just send the apparatus, leave the human back.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “People are now asking questions that are a little more fun, rather than, 'How hot is the sun?' Stuff you can just look up.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Everyone that studied the question of life in the universe… would not deny the likelihood of life elsewhere,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Without the moon, astronomers would be very happy, because the sky would be dark all the time,”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “Now, you can type anything into Google, into ChatGPT. If you have ever seen those replies that come in from AI, it's got no soul. It's got no personality.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “I think what matters are your ambitions and then, depending on your resources, you can achieve it slowly or quickly.”

• Neil deGrasse Tyson

  “because I spent some time with your Prime Minister. We chatted briefly during his trip to New York about future of space exploration in India, and he expressed strong interest in bringing private enterprises into that sector. He sees that this will be a natural evolution.”

• Warren Buffett

  “Out of eight billion people, I may be one of the 10 luckiest in the world.”

• Warren Buffett

  “Fortunately I got exposed, partly accidentally, to what I liked to do very early on, and that was just an accident.”

• Warren Buffett

  “If my father had been a plumber, I would not have.”

• Warren Buffett

  “The casino has gotten very attractive to people,”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’ll wait and see what unfolds ... I don’t have to make that decision today. And I haven’t made it today.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’ve learned things I didn’t know about something for all these years.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I’m impressed by the fact that my kids really want to give the money away”

• Warren Buffett

  “read a great deal since Jan. 1 in terms of what happened with Bill and Epstein. And I have read his remarks to Congress given under oath, and I read the cross-examination.”

• Warren Buffett

  “No one bats a thousand in the business of choosing people,”

• Warren Buffett

  “It’s tough to find values when everybody is preferring gambling,”

• Warren Buffett

  “If you're Apple, you've got very, very smart people all over the world shooting and trying to figure out how to make sure that, that Apple's future, the future is as bright as the past.”

• Warren Buffett

  “That's the game they're playing now. They weren't playing that game with computer software.”

• Warren Buffett

  “I know more about Apple than I knew many years ago,”

• Warren Buffett

  “The trick in life is to find — I mean investing — is to find businesses that are going to earn high returns on capital for an extended period of time,”

• Serena Williams

  “It's nothing too new, and at the same time it's everything new. Change is good.”

• Serena Williams

  “I thought I should really take this opportunity. Who knows if I'll ever make it here again. This could be it,”

• Serena Williams

  “I think in general, my expectations are definitely different for the first time in my career. And I feel like my feelings are just, not that I never enjoyed it before or else I wouldn't be here today, but I feel like I'm really going to enjoy being out there.”

• Serena Williams

  “I had my opportunity, and I'm very happy with where I am.”

• Serena Williams

  “So I think it was on, I had until Monday to decide. I think it was like Sunday. I just wasn’t sure up until then,”

• Serena Williams

  “People live to be an athlete. I have this great opportunity to showcase what I do, what I do best, I suppose. Yeah, I think ultimately I was like that is pretty cool, so I should do it.”

• Serena Williams

  “I was like, ‘What’s wrong with me, Serena? What are you thinking? Are you nuts? Like you really should do this,’”

• Serena Williams

  “I expect to be nervous. I was also nervous every single match I ever played in my life,”

• Serena Williams

  “That's a question I can't answer. Who knows? Who knows where I'll pop up?”

• Serena Williams

  “You think I'm ready for singles? I need to get to work.”

• Serena Williams

  “I was really motivated by what Venus was doing at US Open, I thought she played really well. Quarterfinals in doubles, I thought was really interesting,”

• Serena Williams

  “I don’t have anything to lose, and everything here is just to gain … This whole journey is like, I’m putting no pressure on myself.”

• Serena Williams

  “I can’t say no right now, I feel like I probably need to train a little bit more if I want to play singles, and we will see if I get there, and if not… that’s not my journey right now,”

• Daniel Ek

  “But what we can say with great certainty … it’s very important … that we shouldn’t have to rely on anyone else to defend ourselves.”

• Daniel Ek

  “We’re at a crossroads for the kind of future we want to build”

• Daniel Ek

  “Big challenges often appear impossible until someone decides to tackle them,”

• Daniel Ek

  “At Spotify, we started with what felt like an impossible idea. Nearly 20 years later, that idea is used by almost three-quarters of a billion people around the world ... What once looked unreasonable is now obvious.”

• Daniel Ek

  “It's been an honor of a lifetime for me to be able to lead Spotify for close to 20 years,”

• Daniel Ek

  “It’s a company that builds companies,”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’ve spent twenty years, nearly my entire adult life, as Spotify’s CEO,”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’m ready to go from a player to a coach.”

• Daniel Ek

  “They’re more than capable and more than ready to take it on. And in many ways, they are way better at leading this company than I ever was, as a combination.”

• Daniel Ek

  “I’m going to be involved in the long arc of the company, the big strategy decisions, the big capital allocation decisions. But to be brutally clear, so that there’s no doubt, they are going to run the company, they are the CEOs, they’ll make the decisions.”

• Daniel Ek

  “We are trying to do things traditional VCs aren’t set up to do—industries where investors can’t go or where the timeline doesn’t make sense.”

• Daniel Ek

  “Our challenge was: how do we get the benefit of their amazing execution but still remain founder-led?”

• Daniel Ek

  “I always believed that Spotify could play an important role in revolutionizing listening around the world, and with more than 700 million users, we’ve truly charted a new course bringing creativity to every corner of the globe,”

• Dolly Parton

  “Because I’ve always tried to stay true to me. And always, when people ask me for advice, that’s kind of what I tell them.”

• Dolly Parton

  “There are some people just born beautiful, and then if they add more stuff, they're just more beautiful. But then there are people, like me, that you just try to make the most of what you got,”

• Dolly Parton

  “Find out who you are and do it on purpose. And do it with purpose,”

• Dolly Parton

  “My hair, I used to try to tease it to make it all it was, and with the bleach and all that, I thought, ‘Well, I’m gonna start wearing wigs,’”

• Dolly Parton

  “I'm not tall. I'm never going to be like a supermodel, so I like to wear my high heels.”

• Dolly Parton

  “To thine own self be true.”

• Dolly Parton

  “We just dream and think, what do we want? We don't want things that’s just going to last a season or two…we want things to be lasting.”

• Dolly Parton

  “It just does my heart good to see that Dollywood has done so well. And after 40 years, it just gets better and better and better,”

• Dolly Parton

  “I would love to just close the park down, just bring my family and friends and have a big old party,”

• Dolly Parton

  “it just brought so many more tourists in, and other people started building other businesses and hotels and all that. There were some things here, but not near like it was after Dollywood opened.”

• Dolly Parton

  “People in this area are just great people, period. They're just good people. And then you put them on a park to welcome guests, you feel that. You feel that they really mean it when they say, ‘Well, welcome (to Dollywood)’,”

• Dolly Parton

  “You want every experience they have to be a memory worth repeating.”

• Dolly Parton

  “I loved bright colors, and I still do. Through the years, I just wore what I felt matched my personality.”

• Larry Ellison

  “For these models to reach their peak value, you need to train them not just on publicly available data, but make privately owned data available for those models as well,”

• Larry Ellison

  “AI changes everything. That’s saying a lot, but it is close,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The great opportunity is the use of these remarkable electronic brains to solve society’s most-enduring problems… We will live better lives through better health care, homes, productivity at work.”

• Larry Ellison

  “There are a lot of brilliant, really brilliant scientists in our business. Bill, forgive me, there are a lot of people in the world smarter than Bill Gates. There are very few people in the world that have his focus and endurance.”

• Larry Ellison

  “Today, 18 months later, I think it’s very, very clear: AI is a much bigger deal than the Industrial Revolution, electricity, and everything that’s come before,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The secret is to get all that data in one place. Without having the basic data, the AI model doesn’t have the context and cannot answer the [specific] questions about your country.”

• Larry Ellison

  “We will soon have not only artificial intelligence but also — much sooner than anticipated —artificial general intelligence and then, in the not-too-distant future, artificial superintelligence.”

• Larry Ellison

  “I can go on and on, but AI will fundamentally change our lives in medicine, agriculture, and robotics across the board.”

• Larry Ellison

  “And we’re short. We are expanding as fast as we can. It’s really interesting. It’s an exciting opportunity. But it’s challenging when there’s more demand than supply.”

• Larry Ellison

  “There’s actually more demand for AI processing than there is available capacity,”

• Larry Ellison

  “People talk about ChatGPT being really cool because it can write my high-school essay for me,”

• Larry Ellison

  “The other guys can’t do that … can’t do it dynamically.”

• Larry Ellison

  “They run their workload and the moment their workload is through running, we can reallocate that cluster or break that cluster up and allocate it to other users,”

• Larry Ellison

  “Well, how about reducing hospital readmissions at MD Anderson by 30 percent? You decide which is more important. … And GPT is very cool. There are other applications other than generative language in these large language models.”

• Safra Catz

  “Oracle's technology and business have never been stronger. And our breathtaking growth rate points to an even more prosperous future. At this time of strength is the right moment to pass the CEO role to the next generation of capable executives.”

• Safra Catz

  “Today, Oracle is recognized as the cloud of choice for both AI training and inferencing. I'm very proud of that,”

• Safra Catz

  “We are on the side of freedom. We are on the side of democracy,”

• Safra Catz

  “And by the way, this is true not only in companies — whole civilizations survive or disappear because of whether they’re adaptable to new conditions and new capabilities, and those that really take advantage of them are going to prosper,”

• Safra Catz

  “And one of the reasons that businesses succeed is when they’re adaptable and when they’re absorbing those new technologies. But those that sort of stick with what they have? They get passed over.”

• Safra Catz

  “Transforming yourself and modernizing yourself — that’s not a destination, it’s a constant journey,”

• Safra Catz

  “One thing we can agree on — in every company — is that the one thing that’s not going to change is that everything is changing all the time, and that you’ve got to be ready, and you’ve got to see it–and often see it before your competitors.”

• Safra Catz

  “But what we saw during COVID was, in fact, that companies who did not adjust…weren’t going to survive COVID. And what we saw is that changing fast, actually, isn’t risky at all — in fact, changing slowly can be fatal,”

• Safra Catz

  “From October 7th I feel like we have been in this trauma, catastrophe really from the first moment. There's before October 7th, and there's after, and it's been a really remarkable and difficult time,”

• Safra Catz

  “We believe now is a very good time to be in Israel”

• Safra Catz

  “The question is whether the company can survive or is it burning its cash.”

• Safra Catz

  “We have great respect for the Israeli government but think it made a mistake in the cloud tender,”

• Safra Catz

  “Not everyone was betting on Oracle to cross the chasm and be such a leader in the cloud.”

• Marc Benioff

  “GAAP operating margin of 21.1%, up 130 points.”

• Marc Benioff

  “We have delivered record revenue, record deals, and just incredible cash flow.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Revenue was $11.13 billion, up 13% year over year nominal and 12% at constant currency.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And we delivered $6.7 billion in operating cash flow.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And we are seeing incredible demand for agentforce with ARR now greater than $1 billion.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Well, I think as everybody can see, this was really an outstanding quarter for Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Agentic AI, well, it is the biggest growth opportunity for our customers, for us at Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Tens of thousands of businesses across every industry are building their agentic enterprise with Salesforce.”

• Marc Benioff

  “And combined with Data 360 and Informatica Cloud, we have delivered $3.4 billion in AI and data ARR.”

• Marc Benioff

  “Salesforce says half of its work is being done by AI now. What happens to half of Salesforce's workers?”

• Marc Benioff

  “I’m probably the last CEO that you’ll meet who only managed humans,”

• Marc Benioff

  “All of us going forward are going to manage humans and agents together.”

• Marc Benioff

  “an important institution that is having a positive global impact on the world and is deeply aligned with our family’s values and we’re delighted to be the new stewards of Time Magazine.”

• Larry Page

  “If you type Stanford, you get sort of random pages that mention Stanford. This obviously wasn’t going to work.”

• Larry Page

  “Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google,”

• Larry Page

  “Search engines didn’t really understand the notion of which pages were more important,”

• Larry Page

  “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”

• Larry Page

  “In tech, we should have some safe places where we can try out some new things and figure out what is the effect on society and what is the effect on people, without having to deploy them in the whole world,”

• Larry Page

  “I think money is more important to them than having any collaboration.”

• Larry Page

  “We should be building great things that don’t exist. Being negative is not how we make progress, and the most important things are not zero sum.”

• Larry Page

  “We certainly struggle with people like Microsoft.”

• Larry Page

  “the pace of change is increasing”

• Larry Page

  “And that’s good, we don’t want to change the world. But maybe we can set aside a part of the world.”

• Larry Page

  “There are many exciting things you could do that are illegal or not allowed by regulation,”

• Larry Page

  “In some sense, I feel like music training led to the high-speed legacy of Google for me”

• Larry Page

  “from a very early age, I also realized I wanted to invent things. So I became interested in technology and business. Probably from when I was 12, I knew I was going to start a company eventually.”

• Larry Page

  “In music, you're very cognizant of time. Time is like the primary thing”

• Steven Spielberg

  “She always said, ‘Let’s not be conceited to think that we’re the only intelligent life in the universe,’”

• Steven Spielberg

  “'Disclosure Day' is about how, if somebody had the power and if somebody had possession of the entire archive of visual evidence of what's been happening for the last 80 years, what would happen if they decided to do a data dump across the entire world all at once?”

• Steven Spielberg

  “But I also remember seeing these points of light darting across the sky. And I just remember thinking that was one of the most extraordinary things I had ever seen.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “And the people who are trying to stop that data dump from happening, that is basically the core of this chase movie.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I’ve been a believer since I made ‘Close Encounters’ 50 years ago,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I didn’t care whether people thought ‘The Fabelmans’ was just a tale, a yarn, or if they cared that it was all true. I didn’t care about that. It was something I did for myself. I always used to say it was $40 million of therapy that I didn’t have to pay for. Universal did,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “It’s my first film that will be considered science fiction that I do not consider to be science fiction,”

• Steven Spielberg

  “It was the hardest question I ever had to ask myself because there was such completion in resolving so many personal issues that I had never aired in public before ‘The Fabelmans,’”

• Steven Spielberg

  “We’d be in different time zones and I would wake up to 30 or 35 texts from his most current reading of the script. When the leader of the project has that level of commitment, it tends to bring along everyone. You up your game.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “an appetite for a Western, which I will someday hopefully do. It’s something that’s eluded me for all of these decades.”

• Steven Spielberg

  “I’m making a lot of movies and I have no plans … ever … to retire.”

• Taylor Swift

  “I called him up and I just really quickly blurted out, like, I got to see the new 'Toy Story.' I have to tell you all about the film, but we need to write this song. We need to write this song,”

• Taylor Swift

  “What means a lot to me about this song is that in life you have friendships, you have memories with people, you form bonds, and then sometimes a path takes you a different way,”

• Taylor Swift

  “That really made me feel like I knew exactly what I wanted to write for her.”

• Taylor Swift

  “Sometimes you see somebody again down the road and you're just like, 'Man, it's been a while.' Like, but you're the same person that I had all these memories with.”

• Taylor Swift

  “We've seen her have her heart broken. Like, we've watched, you know, the car pull away,”

• Taylor Swift

  “It was just, I was so excited. It was such a frenetic form of excitement.”

• Taylor Swift

  “I watched you drive around the bend / for what I thought would be the last time I saw my friend.”

• Taylor Swift

  “Knowing I had his blessing to enter this world was really special for me and kind of helped ease what might have been a stressful situation, if I didn't know that he was good with it,”

• Taylor Swift

  “That’s too much of it. Like, you’re inundating yourself with too much criticism that doesn’t really have a focus.”

• Taylor Swift

  “But don’t like... God, don’t go to the Notes app and post it. Like, write about it. Make art about this. Don’t respond to trolls in your comments. That’s not what we want from you. We want your art.”

• Taylor Swift

  “You have to hold tight to your perception of your art and your relationship with it, and then you just have to kind of like, ‘There it goes, hope you like it! If you don’t know, hope you do in five years! And if you never do, then I was doing it for me anyway.’”

• Taylor Swift

  “That song doesn’t exist if I don’t get criticized for every aspect of my personality that people have a problem with or whatever,”

• Taylor Swift

  “My favorite thing when I sit down with new artists or songwriters is I’m like, ‘Why are you reading your comments?’”

• Taylor Swift

  “I can only speak to me but as I’ve grown up, the intensity of the sort of no-pun-intended ‘message in a bottle’ nature of my songwriting has shifted and changed into something else,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “hundreds of diseases. That’s the aim. These are the first test cases.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “We’re at the foothills of the singularity,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I think that AI, it's actually going to be almost a new era for humanity,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I think AI, in the next 10 years, is going to save far more energy than it uses in the long run,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “building out their own energy infrastructures to make sure that the brunt of those costs and the energy that they're using is not passed on to the consumer.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “Understanding the deep mystery of the universe is my religion, kind of.”

• Demis Hassabis

  “I’ve dedicated my whole life to working on AI because I believe in its potential to change the world,”

• Demis Hassabis

  “... the reason I spent my whole career on AI is because I believe it could be the ultimate tool to help with science.”

• Ejae

  “I'm figuring it out as I go,”

• Ejae

  “I think music in general, if there's just music there, I will do it...I'm willing to do all. You know, wear all outfits,”

• Ejae

  “So to be hearing that now, it's just such a confidence booster. I'm trying to rewire my brain,”

• Ejae

  “I was at this panel the other day, and I was talking about that. And literally in the crowd while I was saying it, it was like, ‘We love your voice, EJAE!' And that just like, immediately, I couldn't not cry,”

• Ejae

  “It's just so foreign to me to hear that, really. I think for so long, I heard kind of the opposite, or just like, no comment on my voice.”

• Ejae

  “Oh yeah. I feel so honored to even be nominated for that, but to be given the award, [it] truly means a lot. Because I love K-pop, and as a lot of people know, I trained to be a K-pop idol.”

• Ejae

  “I would love to one day work on a project like ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ or do the soundtrack for a James Bond film.”

• Ejae

  “It would be a message to every Asian-American girl who’s ever felt impostor syndrome in this industry.”

• Ejae

  “Rumi’s lyrics reflect her desperation to fix her patterns. It’s like her personal pep talk – telling herself not to give up and that she can reach her dreams.”

• Ejae

  “As a trainee, I learnt to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video,”

• Ejae

  “I learned to think about how a song might translate into choreography or a music video. That perspective has shaped my songwriting ever since.”

• Peter Thiel

  “So the GDP grows, but it’s a giant windfall to the boomer homeowners and to the landlords and it’s a massive hit to the lower-middle class and to young people who can never get on the housing ladder.”

• Peter Thiel

  “The basic Georgist obsession was real estate and it was if you weren’t really careful, you would get runaway real estate prices and the people who owned the real estate would make all the gains in a society,”

• Peter Thiel

  “benefit the boomers, whose properties keep going up in value and [are] extremely detrimental to the millennials.”

• Peter Thiel

  “when the Democratic Party goes, this country is over,”

• Peter Thiel

  “There are all these anti-Trump protests: we don’t want kings, we want rule of law,”

• Peter Thiel

  “The Republican Party doesn’t matter that much. It’s the less important one,”

• Peter Thiel

  “working for the Chinese Communists.”

• Peter Thiel

  “My generation was the first one where things felt really stuck,”

• Ruth Porat

  “It’s models, it’s chips, it’s research, and it’s the application across all of our platforms,”

• Ruth Porat

  “One area we care immensely about is delivering for everyone in a high-quality way, especially when models were hallucinating,”

• Ruth Porat

  “If you wake up in the middle of the night and your child has a fever, and you want to give Tylenol, it better be right. Google stands for quality, and that was very important to us.”

• Ruth Porat

  “People come into their careers with a preordained notion of what work they're going to do. Given that the world is dynamic, not static, they miss seeing things that otherwise might be extraordinary.”

• Ruth Porat

  “A star is someone who is in my face, because I want them to challenge me in different ways,”

• Ruth Porat

  “I don't want people who process. I want people who think,”

• Ruth Porat

  “The next big thing starts with search,”

• Ruth Porat

  “It’s about a radical rethink of ‘What is your business?’”

• Ruth Porat

  “There’s an overused expression [that is meaningful nonetheless]: ‘You’re not going to lose to AI; you’re going to lose to the person who is using AI.’”

• Ruth Porat

  “You do not want to be the one that’s waking up too late and realizing that you’re behind in your industry,”

• Ruth Porat

  “Google started as ‘10 blue links’ and then evolved to tech search, then to voice search, and now multimodal search,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “For all the young women I work with and the generations of girls to come, I'm okay now accepting this title,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “We're used to even disagreement, and I think that's healthy. A topic as profound and impactful as AI requires a lot of healthy debate and public discourse.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Some of you might know that I have been vocal about my concerns about this bill [SB 1047], which was vetoed, but right now I’m thinking deeply, and with a lot of excitement, to look forward,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I come from academic AI and have been educated in the more rigorous and evidence-based methods, so I don’t really know what all these words mean,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I frankly don’t even know what AGI means. Like people say you know it when you see it, I guess I haven’t seen it. The truth is, I don’t spend much time thinking about these words because I think there’s so many more important things to do…”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I was very flattered, or honored, that Governor Newsom invited me to participate in the next steps of post-SB 1047.”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “I absolutely respect that. I think, intellectually, we should talk about all this. But if you ask me as an AI leader… I feel there are other risks that are what I would call catastrophic risks to society that are more pressing and urgent,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “This moment in AI is an inflection moment,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Because of that, it impacts our world in a more profound way,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “It takes people to call out the imperfections of ImageNet and to call out fairness issues. This is why we need diverse voices,”

• Fei-Fei Li

  “Our collective understanding of the role data plays is so much more sophisticated now… compared to 2009, when we were the first to call out the importance of data,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Studying how bacteria fight viral infections may sound like a niche area of biology, and it was,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “What if I could become a scientist who worked on discovering things about the natural world, maybe things no one had ever known before?”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I loved the process of discovery,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “But this curiosity-driven research led in directions that none of us anticipated at the start of the project.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I ended up getting a full scholarship, you know, so that kind of settled the question.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I certainly didn't start out in my career thinking I'm doing this to win prizes.”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I deeply love Hawaii. I love the culture there. It's a very special place,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “I felt totally unprepared and totally over my head,”

• Jennifer Doudna

  “Everybody else seemed to be a lot more sophisticated than me. . . . I had grown up in such a different place.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Go to work and respect who you're working with until they prove they don't get your respect,”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Try not to be [an asshole]. It might not work out, but try.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I was in Toronto, Canada, and then I got a manager who lived in Los Angeles.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I think the idea of looking at video games and movies and so on, it's just a way of exonerating the people who are really profiting from the violence.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I love words and storytelling and I love the way that you can have this engagement that overlays. And so you can look at the art and then you can follow the story.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “Grief changes shape, but it never ends. [...] People have a misconception that you can deal with it and say, 'It's gone, and I'm better.' They're wrong.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “where I would pick up pins and clean on the weekend for allowance money.”

• Keanu Reeves

  “I think there’s an English formality my mom carries, and that’s become a part of me, too,”

• Beyoncé

  “I had to tell myself, ‘At some point, you have to be the adult that your father has raised.’”

• Beyoncé

  “My parents taught me how to work hard and smart. Both were entrepreneurs; I watched them struggle working 18-hour days,”

• Beyoncé

  “We both knew it was time, maybe a few years before, but I love my father so much, and he has taught me so many things. So [choosing to part ways] was something that was hard,”

• Beyoncé

  “They taught me that nothing worth having comes easily. My father stressed discipline and was tough with me. He pushed me to be a leader and an independent thinker. My mother loved me unconditionally, so I felt safe enough to dream.”

• Beyoncé

  “If Beyoncé came to me and said, ‘Dad, I wanna be a doctor,’ I would find a way of buying a hospital.”

• Beyoncé

  “You lose touch with who you are,”

• Beyoncé

  “You wanna think she’s a bitch because she’s so fine,”

• Beyoncé

  “When you work so much like we did, it’s just too much.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “I think about all of the young girls who may become inspired by my story and want to become scientists. To them I say: Stay curious, adopt the right attitude and stay on the track no matter how long and winding that road may be.”

• Katalin Karikó

  “My science teachers made sure that I stayed curious for life and encouraged me to keep learning,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “It was like winning the lottery,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “were constantly educating each other,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “If I don't bring in the money I don't deserve the working space,”

• Katalin Karikó

  “Because you are fired, don't start to feel sorry for yourself. You just have to focus on what's next because that's what you can change.”

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