“That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

It’s better to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

The mark of an innovative company is not only that it comes up with new ideas first, but also that it knows how to leapfrog when it finds itself behind.

You have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.

None of us are as creative as all of us.

Without passion, any rational person would give up!

It’s really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don’t know what they want until you show it to them.

If you keep your eye on the profit, you’re going to skimp on the product. But if you focus on making really great products, then the profits will follow.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

People don’t know what they want until you show it to them. That’s why I never rely on marketing research. Our task is to read things that are not yet on the page.

I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career – it’s a life!

I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.

You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I’m not all that enthralled by show business, and I’m not that much of a highbrow.

Big business is not dangerous because it is big, but because its bigness is an unwholesome inflation created by privileges and exemptions which it ought not to enjoy.

What other people think of me is none of my business.

The business is my life, the ring my salvation, the locker room and roads my nourishment.

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

You are free; you are free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other place or worship in this State of Pakistan. You may belong to any religion or caste or creed – that has nothing to do with the business of the State.

You pay your dues and work your way up through the system, whatever system there is – something guys in the business today don’t really understand, don’t have a clue.

This business is based on numbers, and the numbers show that it’s worth investing in female-driven and female-directed films.