If you're going to go to the moon, you don't shoot the rocket right at the moon. You have to go at it obliquely.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Learn early, learn often.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

Using money in one’s attempt to put an end to poverty is like using a border in one’s attempt to put an end to xenophobia.

I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls With vassals and serfs at my side.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

Why are there no great women artists?' sounds as ignorant of human geography as the query 'Why are there no Eskimo tennis teams?

If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not

Of course language arose in a Darwinian biological world, because that's all there is, but that world relates only superficially to the pop-biology that circulates informally.

I have no regrets about anything that I've ever done, about whom I've been involved with, so forth and so on.

Old Time the clock-setter.

Little things are big.