If every customer is using your product "correctly", you'll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

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.

Life-changing gratitude does not fasten to a life unless nailed through with one very specific nail at a time.

If I'm not working, I have home time with my family, and if I spend that stressing what's going to happen next, then it's a waste. I have a lot to be thankful for.

RECREATION, n. A particular kind of dejection to relieve a general fatigue.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

There is no such thing as a moderate Republican anymore.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.

I love bringing the colors and textures of other cultures. If I wear a dress that I bought from a street vendor in Bali on a red carpet, it's a way of bringing my travels with me.

I left a lot - a lot - of touchdowns on the field throughout the last two or three years.

No, I don't suppose I'm so much a collector sort of person.