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

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.

Following religious principles because you fear the consequences isn't faith…. It’s superstition.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

I'm not aggressive by nature and it was tough for me to make the transition to directing.

Fading light means more than just the end of another day. Night is when terrible things emerge from their sleep and seek soft flesh and hot blood.

For me, the most interesting thing is longevity and sustaining a career, because that's what's truly difficult.

Stand by those who stand by you.

If patriarchy had a specific beginning in history, it can also have an end