I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

Sometimes servant leaders focus on the servitude part and forget the leader part. Great leadership isn't about abdication of power, it about the benevolent application of that power.

A house from which nobody ever went away without feeling better in some way. A house in which there was always laughter.

God is in need of godly servants to send to the religious world to bring back his kingdom there

Your disbelief cures nothing.

Evil gains work their punishment.

We could have touched the stars. Instead, you brought them to us. We didn't have to seek the heavens when we had you here with us now.

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

I did the Ed Sullivan show four times. I did the Steve Allen show. I did the Jackie Gleason show.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world.