Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

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.

We would be allowed to work and not cause any trouble for her, but she didn't want us to be any more successful than she was

School should become the place where teachers, not just students, learn.

If I was born again, I would be able to do any sport because I would have time to learn.

Chemistry is a gibberish of Latin and German; but in Leibig's hands it becomes a powerful language.

Pot is like a gang of Mexican bandits in your brain. They wait for thoughts to come down the road, then tie them up and thrash them.

Kindness in thought leads to wisdom. Kindness in speech leads to eloquence. Kindness in action leads to love.

Waiting in line is a great opportunity to meet people, daydream, or play.

Acting is a strange business; one day it's there, and the next day nowhere to be seen.

All we can do, child, is follow our destiny.

How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.