Tyler Cowen Quotes

If I wasn't an actress I would run a fortune 500 company.

Only great people can make great products.

Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at.

A noble purpose inspires sacrifice, stimulates innovation and encourages perseverance.

Does anybody think Steve Jobs should not be in the 1 percent? He made life better for the 99 percent of the rest of us. You want to create opportunities for people with their unique gifts.

The first Apple was just a culmination of my whole life.

Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.

I want to work with the greats.

It takes vision and courage to create

Wealth is not a matter of intelligence, it's a matter of inspiration.

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations.

Business fascinates me. It's very creative.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The man who puts life into an idea is acclaimed a genius, because he does the right thing at the right time. Therein lies the difference between the genius and a commonplace man.

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

When you meet someone with a vision, you have to give them a shot and an opportunity to see what they can do.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

Innovation comes to you from creators who do have a vision and a passion, and that is how we succeeded.

It's seen as dirty to be ambitious. What if U2 weren't ambitious? We wouldn't have that gift we have from them.

Creativity is incredibly important, but drive is equally so.

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

In every stump speech I give, I speak about the fact that people who dream and achieve enormous success do not make us poorer - they make us better off.

I deal with guys in their 20s and early 30s who are presidents of companies, who are movie directors.

Business is fun. Controlling your own destiny is fun. Creating an idea and turning it into a movie; finding an artist and guiding their career and bringing them to some type of status - there's joy in that.