Modularize, don't customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.

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.

Of course the servants had chosen not to follow me

The quality of a society and of its culture will depend on the status of its unemployed.

The mirror will only lie, when you look at it through a mask.

Hip-hop and R&B is mostly what I listen to. I don't have a connection with punk rock - I just never had that experience.

Isn’t it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings?

Were I to live my life over again, I should live it just as I have done. I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

Keep your soul at peace, in order to be able to be attentive and very faithful to the inner movement of the Holy Spirit.

It’s my luck that every time I feel I completely comprehend God’s plan, I don’t have a pencil with me.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

The day I was born songs were on records, phones were tied down, computers needed rooms and the web was fiction. Change the world. You can.