Anything in excess is a poison.

People don't want quarter-inch drills. They want quarter-inch holes.

Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things.

People don’t want to buy a quarter-inch drill. They want to buy a quarter-inch hole!

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

The purpose of a business is to get and keep a customer. Without customers, no amount of engineering wizardry, clever financing, or operations expertise can keep a company going.

Ideas are useless unless used. The proof of their value is in their implementation. Until then, they are in limbo.

Kodak sells film, but they don't advertise film; they advertise memories.

The true purpose of a business is to create and keep a customer, not to make you money.

Ideation is not a synonym for innovation, conformity is not its simple antonym, and innovation is not the automatic consequence of "creative thinking.".

Organizations exist to enable ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

Gratitude opens you heart to receive more goodness. Then you give thanks and are blessed again. It’s an endless cycle.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

Our people are excited about building solutions, and it's rewarding to see how much fun Netscape employees have doing something they think is relevant and important.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice?

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

When you're fast when you're shooting, there are great things that you discover. By being fast you also sometimes get more time to experiment.

You don't need to have a perfect ending to be happy.

Yeah, yeah. I, I don't think I'm always right. But I don't think young people are always right, either.

..the more you believe in your own ability to success the more likely it is that you will.