The critical question is not whether you'll have luck, but what you do with the luck that you get.

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.

Managing your problems can only make you good, whereas building your opportunities is the only way to become great.

The moment you feel the need to tightly manage someone, you've made a hiring mistake. The best people don't need to be managed. Guided, taught, led-yes. But not tightly managed.

Building a visionary company requires one percent vision and 99 percent alignment.

Good is the enemy of great. That's why so few things become great.

True leadership has people who follow when they have the freedom not to.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

If you have more than three priorities then you don't have any.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.

You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.

I didn't go to business school, didn't care about financial stuff and the stock market.

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers.

If I'm feeling crazy, I'll make some bacon because I'm obsessed with bacon.

If you had seen one day of war, you would pray to God that you would never see another.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

My advice is, do not try to inhabit another's soul. You have your own.

Justice can only be dispensed when you have all the facts in front of you.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

The desire to rule is the mother of heresies.