The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Life is the game that must be played

I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Dogs do not grasp the concept of house cleaning.

You look good, you feel good. You feel good, you fight good.

I always felt like an outsider to the music world in a certain way. There was so much less of an art culture in L.A. - and particularly in the South Bay.

Christ is the explanation of all things, the key to life itself.

because talent alone doesn't make an artist

They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?

I'm hopeful that after Iraq, those in charge will think twice about taking us down that route again.

It is better to proceed with one's duty in the service of others than wallow in the pain attachments bring