Where visionaries can be good at persuasion, CEOs are good at wielding authority. Visionaries transcend organizations, resources, and current realities, while CEOs master them.

I predict the Internet will soon go spectacularly supernova and in 1996 catastrophically collapse.

If you cannot be on the project each day to check on things, then you should not try and be your own contractor.

Invention is a flower, innovation is a weed.

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

In network theory, the value of a system grows as approximately the square of the number of users of the system.

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

I saw that there are people who will connive against innovation. They're hostile to it. And that has shaped my behavior ever since.

When you're running a company, creating jobs is the last thing you want to. When you're running a company you want to employ as few people as possible, and yet you inadvertently create jobs.

Innovation makes the world go round. It brings prosperity and freedom.

You don't grow the economy by growing government.

Life is a song made of the musical rhythm of the body, words of the mind and the melodious silence of the soul.

The turnip cannot thrive in the tulips patch of soil.

To become successful, do the little extra things that ordinary people refuse to do. The little extra hard work, little extra practice, little extra studying and the little extra positive attitude.

One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

Look what [Chinese] are doing, they're building a massive fortress against everything. A massive fortress in the South China Sea. And yet they're ripping us off.

I'll never reach my destination, If I never try, So I will sail my vessel, 'Til the river runs dry.

There is no end to what can be said about the world

Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.

Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.