Obviously everyone wants to be successful, but I want to be looked back on as being very innovative, very trusted and ethical.

We just wanted to build a search engine that worked.

Ask why five times.

-- Sakichi Toyoda

With an apple I want to astonish Paris.

-- Paul Cézanne

In the northern darkness there is a fish called Kun. The Kun is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans. It transforms into a bird called Peng. The back of the Peng is so vast one cannot tell how many thousands of li it spans.

-- Zhuang Zhou

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

-- J. P. Morgan

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

-- J. P. Morgan

It's as easy to do something big as it is to do something small, so reach for a fantasy worthy of a pursuit and, if it's a real fantasy, you'll get part of the way there.

-- Stephen A. Schwarzman