If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Don't lose sight of user delight.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

To you, I'm an atheist.To God, I'm the loyal opposition.

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Don't, " she begged, knowing that surely she was trying his patience, that his kindness would stretch just so far, that if he were truly kind he could never have survived as a vampire.

Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.

If you ain't got socks, you ain't got much. But if you got 'em, you might as well pull 'em up. It's a statement of self-sufficiency. We should all be more self-governed.

Every time I do what you say I tumble a bit farther down this well of darkness, an' this here is a drop too deep an' too dark for me. I have to stop falling while I can still see a bit of the sky.

Egypt gave birth to what later would become known as 'Western Civilization,' long before the greatness of Greece and Rome.

I didn't really like being at college. It wasn't like it was Oxford and had been the most wonderful time of my life. It was really a dull, boring course I was stuck on.

My tennis is aggressive, though I wouldn't say that it's more physical than technical. I rely more on technique than physique, but being physical is always a help to me.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.