John Gardner Quotes

Picasso didn't stop painting when he was 41 years old because he felt he wasn't relevant, but he kept going and the painting he made before he died are now worth 40 million dollars.

This is over 10 years in the making for me and just a dream come true. I'm the luckiest person in the world.

And this is the best success I can dream for my life: to have spread a new vision of the world.

You will never win fame and fortune unless you invent big ideas.

I think Coran Capshaw is such a brilliant entrepreneur and he always thinks about new stuff; the biggest stuff you can imagine. I know he's working on a lot of things for me at the moment, and I think it will definitely help my career to go to the next level.

It's important to me to create the largest wonder.

I really think that technology has the greatest potential to accelerate happiness of most things in the world. The companies that will ultimately do well are the companies that chase happiness. If you find a way to help people find love, or health or friendship, the dollar will chase that.

I just hope I can live long enough to see the fame.

I'm trying to focus on original material. That is what I've had my luck with.

The true success is the person who invented himself.

I hope to live long and be happy. But I'd like to be remembered as somebody who did good rather than mischief.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I love my work. I've had three successful series, and I want to find out if I can make a fourth.

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace.

I'm not going to give up doing interesting things. I'm going to do it as long as I possibly can and hopefully have longevity in this business.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

Success, to me, is something new and vibrant.

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

Being a champion is a dream come true.

Winning the World Cup was a dream come true.

I want to be the guy with the fresh new sound. I can remember as a kid thinking about a DJ going, 'Ladies and gentlemen, here's the new one from Frankie Ballard. He's the guy with that hot new sound.' That's the dream.

I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.

Yes, I am successful in Asia. But if you think about that too much, you become boring. Because you don't want to take risks.

If you don't put out material that's going to last, you're not going to last.

I am only as good as my last song. Hits are a pension, but I don't want to rest on those songs. I want to have a future.