Learn early, learn often.

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.

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.

You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

By that which you kill are you bound.

My highest aspiration in life is to serve as the Limerick Laureate of Nantucket.

There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had and used significant weapons of mass destruction on his own people, both the Kurds and the Iranians.

Every time you see a University of Michigan team, you're going to see a team that's going to play together & fight until the end until there's two zeros on the clock.

There has always been a certain romanticism associated with the airline business. We must avoid its perpetuation at Eastern at all costs.

Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs.

Advertisements may be evaluated scientifically; they cannot be created scientifically.

What being a founder means, is signing up for this years long grind on execution - and you can't outsource this.

You want something by Bach? Which one, Johann Sebastian or Jacques Offen?

I tend to focus less on genre as a starting point and more on idea or intention and let the idea dictate genre.