I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

If you think you can't, you're right.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Leave the company of the people who are given you empty promises

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

It is the writer's business not to accuse and not to prosecute, but to champion the guilty, once they are condemned and suffer punishment.

I had gained so much confidence through my college achievements that I wanted to tackle the world.

Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?

I think that people can fall in love with someone who is not of their own generation.

I'm always listening to music; I can't live without it.

I just hope that some of the movies I'm in are still welcome years from now.

I'm still going on bad dates when by now I should be in a bad marriage.

Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.