One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity.

I'm a person who enjoys the hands-on experience of anything I do. Get your hands dirty - that's the thing that drives and motivates me.

In order to succeed... you have to put a stake in the ground.

Even bad results teach you something, and you can learn your lessons and get better.

At Microsoft, the magic of software is used to take on very interesting challenges.

Lawyers don't run sales forces.

You know, being an entrepreneur is super hard work, and if you're not passionate about what you're doing, you're probably not going to succeed.

Enterprise search is becoming an indispensable tool to businesses of all sizes, helping people to find, use and share critical business information quickly.

Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.

Every day is its own infinity, every hour, its own eternity, every minute, its own forever.

What Zayd had said to her was hurtful. The words speared across the most sensitive part of her heart like how a gardening spear cut along the leaves, leaving the top part of the bushes bare and lost.

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?

Trust is a risk game. The leader must ante up first.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing.

I defend myself by improving myself.