My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

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.

If we were in a room full of art, I would stare at her.

Don’t be unwilling to take those little steps

I do have a religion

Yes, 'Aagadu' was a failure. I was dejected for a couple of months, since there was a lot at stake.

I think it's very hard for a woman to be treated as a person and not just as a woman who tries to become a politician.

If he'd just crowded me down to the side of the asphalt, I'd have been OK. But when he ran me completely off the racetrack, I lost it.

The separation of the Arabs from the rest of mankind has accustomed them to confound the ideas of stranger and enemy.

In the history of humanity, women have never been as oppressed as they are right now. Men can make babies with us and then walk away.

Don't let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.

You lose yourself trying to hold on to someone who doesn't care about losing you