I fully understand the expectations of the state governments. Thus, I am better placed to work closely with the chief ministers.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

I’ve been a huge fan of Chris Martin forever; it’d be awesome to work with him. He’s really kind, and he’s been really encouraging when we’ve met.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it’s true.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Obviously this song is an achievement for me in my career, but what makes me really feel good is to make Latinos feel proud. To provoke that pride that a pop figure and someone so big in music globally like Drake would sing with me completely in Spanish and create this hit ‚MIA.‘ That’s the best part of it.

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

I’d love to do a duet, always wanted to work with Madonna, but she never asked.

If you like a person you say ‚let’s go into business together.‘ Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Many people feel so pressured by the expectations of others that it causes them to be frustrated, miserable and confused about what they should do. But there is a way to live a simple, joy-filled, peaceful life, and the key is learning how to be led by the Holy Spirit, not the traditions or expectations of man.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

In the egoic state, your sense of self, your identity, is derived from your thinking mind – in other words, what your mind tells you about yourself: the storyline of you, the memories, the expectations, all the thoughts that go through your head continuously and the emotions that reflect those thoughts. All those things make up your sense of self.

My company survives because I’ve learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I like it when someone tells me ‚I don’t agree.‘ This is a true collaborator. When they say ‚Oh, how great, how great, how great,‘ that’s not useful.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.

When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I’m not going to do anything that will make you uncomfortable. I want you to know that you won’t be disappointed in me.

I spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

When individual members of the team are highly disciplined, they can be trusted and, therefore, allowed to operate with very little oversight.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there.

No cricket team in the world depends on one or two players. The team always plays to win.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

Housework never really bothered me… what bothered me about it later was that it was expected to be your life… when you’re a housewife, you are constantly interrupted. You have no space in your life. It isn’t the fact that you do the laundry.

I think I have a certain respect for people, you know. And I guess a lot of times I expect that respect to go both ways.

I was approached about having my own network many, many years ago. There were some people who wanted to start up a network, and I didn’t want to get that involved in the business aspect of it.

I sincerely hope I can contribute to the progress there has been in relations between Jews and Catholics since the Second Vatican Council in a spirit of renewed collaboration.

Through the right people focusing on the right things, we can, in time, get on top of a lot if not most of the problems of this world. And that’s what a number of us are trying to do.

I feel very strongly that SpaceX would not have been able to get started, nor would we have made the progress that we have, without the help of NASA.

China and the U.S. need each other very badly. Yes, we should argue about some things, but it’s not an ‚us versus them,‘ it’s an ‚us and them‘ type scenario.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

The great thieves lead away the little thief.

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.

I first met Bev Shea while in Chicago when he was on Moody Radio. As a young man starting my ministry, I asked Bev if he would join me. He said yes, and for over 60 years we had the privilege of ministering together across the country and around the world.

I think Tesla will most likely develop its own autopilot system for the car, as I think it should be camera-based, not Lidar-based. However, it is also possible that we do something jointly with Google.

In this day and age, when you can use a machine or computer to simulate or emulate what people can do together, it still can’t replace the magic of four people in a room playing.

To Sun-tzu and the ancient Chinese, doing something extraordinary had little effect without a setup of something ordinary. You had to mix the two – to fix your opponent’s expectations with some banal, ordinary maneuver, a comfortable pattern that they would then expect you to follow.

You’ve got to reach a hand of friendship across the aisle and across philosophies in this country.

We should not underestimate ourselves, because if lots of individuals go together then we can accomplish almost anything.

I’ve been pleased to work with so many wonderful stars through the years. This has been an amazing journey. I hope it continues.

I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together.

The connectivity declaration is about uniting the whole industry – a lot of companies that typically compete very fiercely – to push in a coherent direction.

Do not be afraid to ask for help. Nobody gets through college on their own.

I don’t know that there is much the United States can do except work with the international community.

People expect your behavior to conform to known patterns and conventions. Your task as a strategist is to upset their expectations.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

Facebook are an amazing team, a brilliant team. It’s a technology that brings people together.

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

Our nation must come together to unite.

And so I think that the idea of America working with other countries to solve problems is good for us, and it is part of digging us out of the ‚my way or the highway‘ approach that was evident in the previous eight years.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.