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.

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.

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.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Change can only take place, if we desire for change.

Stirred up pride is poison to the soul.

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.

Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk].

Whatever merit there is in anything that I have written is simply due to the fact that when I was a child my mother daily read me a part of the Bible and daily made me learn a part of it by heart.

To be a good cook you have to have a love of the good, a love of hard work, and a love of creating.

It's good to work for someone else. Because then you appreciate it more when you are an entrepreneur.

One of the easiest forms of pretense to break down is the pretense of enthusiasm for exotic foods. Just bring on the exotic foods.

You can never know too much about writing. If you think you know everything, you're not leaving yourself open to learn. . . . The best writers are always learning, exploring, and trying to improve.