Tobias Lutke Quotes

I want people to see that you don't need to rely on other people to make your dreams happen: you have to grab them yourself.

Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.

We can do it all and have it all. That's what I want young women to know. Make their own music. If nobody's making music for them, make your own. Do what you are passionate about and don't let anybody or anything stop you or convince you that you are not worthy.

Hold up a mirror and ask yourself what you are capable of doing, and what you really care about. Then take the initiative - don't wait for someone else to ask you to act.

If no one's doing the creative work that you want to do, do it yourself.

You can't just sit there and wait for people to give you that golden dream. You've got to get out there and make it happen for yourself.

You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.

The best thing about Berlin was that I got to be surrounded by people who pursue their ideas for themselves.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

It's our own ability to have an idea and go after the idea and make it happen. That's what at the end of the day defines us.

If you really want something, you've gotta just do it and not wait for other people to hand it to you.

I came out of UCB and, before that, punk rock, and the whole deal was you do it yourself. Get up and rent the space, get up and press your own records, get up and silkscreen your own tees, get it done yourself. That sort of self-reliance will only serve me. Any time I lose sight of that, my career suffers.

Being from a small town, no one else was going to breathe life into my ideas other than me, so I had to go out there and do it.

I've always been the type of person that thinks, 'If someone else can do it, so can I.'

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

If you want to build something fantastic, just do it. Who is stopping you?

After I got dropped by Interscope, I knew in my heart that I had to fight back some way or not rap at all. I just took it upon myself to get myself where I needed to be.

A genius is simply one who has taken full possession of his own mind and directed it toward objectives of his own choosing, without permitting outside influences to discourage or mislead him.

Don't wait for the stars to align, reach up and rearrange them the way you want...create your own constellation

People can't do something themselves, they want to tell you you can't do it. You want something, go get it.

Almost every successful person begins with two beliefs: the future can be better than the present, and I have the power to make it so.

No one else has ever opened doors for me. I opened them myself.

And I love doing my own projects; that's what I've always wanted to do.

When morning comes, you would better find yourself saying: 'I have so many choices of what to do or what to leave - every morning, every day. I better judge for myself, and - go ahead and do it.'

I can honestly say that I've done everything I've wanted to do, always. Not without difficulty. But every time I wanted to do something, I just did it, from the age of 18 when I started my own theater with my friends. When I decided I wanted to act. I just bit the bullet.