I know what people say, that water's a lot like air. Do you charge for air? Well, of course not. Well, you shouldn't charge for water. Okay, watch what happens you won't have any water

Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.

A plan without action is not a plan. It's a speech.

Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim to what I call the 'ready-aim-aim-aim-aim syndrome'. You must be willing to fire.

A Fool with a Plan is better off than a Genius without a Plan!

The older I get, the more I see a straight path where I want to go. If you're going to hunt elephants, don't get off the trail for a rabbit.

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all.

Work eight hours and sleep eight hours, and make sure that they are not the same eight hours.

You want to compete, and you want to compete at the highest level.

On a scale from 1-10, my ambition is probably 11 or 12.

It has become cheaper to look for oil on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than in the ground.

What happened? How did I get here? How could I have known that my choices mattered?

I’m interested in people’s darker side, the ones that aren’t easy and well balanced. The cracks.

Consistency and accuracy instills believability

The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

To do suc cessful research, you don't need to know everything, you just, need to know one thing that isn't known.

There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt.

You have a dark heart in you, Valentine's daughter.

When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.

When I paint I am ageless, I just have the pleasure or the difficulty of painting.

When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.