Why we do what we do: that moment when you get to see the future on your computer screen before the rest of the world.

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.

There are some things one remembers even though they may never have happened.

I think men have got to change an awful lot. They still prefer the little woman.

You get used to it, you look forward to the adrenaline of the stage fright before you go out.

The commonplace expression that life is nothing but a play is verified above all in this: the world speaks absolutely consistently in one way and acts absolutely consistently in another.

The Kyoto treaty has failed, and it's failed even in Europe, which has had cap and tax since 2005.

I make it a point to go home every weekend so I can meet with Georgians and hear from them directly.

Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.

Veteran art creates a meeting place between veterans and civilians, or simply between veterans with different experiences.

I think one of the major things a director has to do is to know his subject matter, the subject matter of his script, know the truth and the reality of it. That's very important.

I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.