If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

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.

The thing that is changing...Is it my surroundings, or myself?

My home policy: I wage war my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

The life of every river sings its own song, but in most the song is long marred by the discords of misuse.

We were married for better or worse. I couldn't have done better, and she couldn't have done worse.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

I get through some print.

To play the drums, you have to spread your legs and use your arms. It's a very physical instrument to play. It's not feminine.

I still believe in the possibility of the United States, with all its will and all its strength, and I don't just mean military, persevering against any challenge. I still believe in that.

The pleasure of being alive is brought into sharper focus when you need to pay attention to staying alive.

Just remember, forgiveness is a way of setting yourself free of the bondage put on you by others. There is liberty to he had in it.