“Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.”

“Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money. ”

“The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.”

“The world weighs on my shoulders
But what am I to do?
You sometimes drive me crazy
But I worry about you
I know it makes no difference
To what you’re going through
But I see the tip of the iceberg
And I worry about you…
-- Distant Early Warning (1984)”

“The world is mediocre. About that there is no mistake. Well then, has the world been mediocre since time immemorial? No. In the beginning, the world was chaos, and chaos is not mediocre. The mediocratization began when people separated the means of production from daily life.”

“I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? ”

“Successful people never worry about what others are doing.”

“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

“We [at Apple] worry about the humanity being drained out of music, about it becoming a bits-and-bytes kind of world instead of the art and craft.”

“A good number of works owe their success to the mediocrity of their authors' ideas, which match the mediocrity of those of the general public.”