Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

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.

By simply braking down the task into more manageable pieces much can be accomplished in a year.

Unfortunately, the escape became the trap.

I try to show what it is about language and music that enthralls, because I think those are the two elements of poetry.

Good mothers and good fathers and good families don't always have great children.

Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.

I am studying ancient civilizations, trying to find what happened to them, finding out why they went into a decline, why they died.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.