A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

Others can't always define your true identity. They see what they 'want' to see but beyond your mess, God sees the beauty He created and still thinks it's good!

The hatred of those who hate me is like a boomerang to them

The wisest mind hath something yet to learn.

When we turn life’s little pleasures into remedies for life’s troubles, we are setting up idols in our hearts, which actually push God aside.

There's no better book with which to defend the Bible than the Bible itself.

Most of our troubles are due to poor implementation….wrong priorities and unattainable targets

I was born, for instance, incapable of appreciating music.

Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They're inexpensive and easy to procure.

It's too late to apologize for. I have already forgiven you.

This is kind of hard to articulate, but in broad outline, the United States is going to do what the United States has to do.