If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

When sparks fly, some truly great ideas come to light.

There's nothing that will bring realism into your world as quickly as realizing that you're out of cash.

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Planning is not just guessing, it is harmful guessing, because it is a waste of time. All the time you spend doing your five year plan you can use to worry about tomorrow.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Past traumas are like old scars on tissue that never quite healed properly – they occasionally must be cut open, re-examined, and sutured anew.

I have a good house for hosting, so we had the barbecues, and some of the guys over for Thanksgiving, even Christmas.

Every potter praises his own pot.

I love anything that gets me outside of my own head.

Hunt looked like a man who had visited many woman's beds and knew exactly what to do in them.

I try to play squash but I keep running into the walls.

A Christian, a Deist, a Turk, and a Jew, have equal rights: they are men and brethren.

The world was made up of people putting one foot in front of the other; and a life might appear ordinary simply because the person living it had been doing so for a long time.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

I have a number of famous quotes, and one of them is, if you get knocked down, get back up again. I don't really feel like I want to let anything ultimately defeat me.