Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

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.

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.

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

Only those who spend long times with themselves can touch the depths of life!

That's so romantic, to wake up and find that he's packed a bag - and that for the next 48 hours, everything is taken care of.

Society can transport money from rich to poor only in a leaky bucket

What do you think I'm a professor of? The little finger? (On offers of honorary doctorates.)

Friendship * * * is a long time in forming, it is of slow growth, through many trials and months of familiarity.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

I’ve never met a person who exaggerated God’s love. Never. It’s impossible.

I have seen life's purpose, and now it is my own.

I date this girl for two years-and then the nagging starts: 'I wanna know your name...'

Communication: the thing humans forgot when we invented words.