“More than one internet billionaire has told me, ‘I started with an O’Reilly book,’ and I told them, ‘yea, and we got $30.’”

Tim O’Reilly

An example of his motto: “Create more value than you capture.”

“What I learned [from working with Ira Glass] is that a lot of it is just about the effort you put in and not about — I mean you have to have a creative brain, and part of it is that, being born with it, partly. But watching Ira work — a lot of times he just keeps thinking about it longer than other people think about it, and eventually he comes up with an idea that’s good. It made me realize: that’s how people get good ideas, by going through a lot of bad ideas first.
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Alex Blumberg

“At fifteen I set my heart on learning; at thirty I took my stand; at forty I came to be free from doubts; at fifty I understood the decree of heaven; at sixty my ear was attuned; at seventy I followed my heart’s desire without overstepping the line.”

Confucius

“It was not by seeing frequently or hearing frequently that we acquired the senses of seeing or hearing; on the contrary, it was because we possessed the senses that we made use of them, not by making use of them that we obtained them. But the virtues we acquire by first exercising them, as is the case with all the arts, for it is by doing what we ought to do when we have learnt the arts that we learn the arts themselves; we become builders by building and harpists by playing the harp.”

Aristotle

“[When I came up with the character] I was thinking of the idea of passion and emotion and certainty over information. […] Passion and emotion, what you feel in your gut, that’s more important to the public at large than information. If you can make information have passion and emotion as well that’s great, but it’s no important. Information is not important at all. You’ve really got to appeal to people. ”

Stephen Colbert