Yesterday's success formula is often today's obsolete dogma ... We must continually challenge the past so that we can renew ourselves each day.

Companies that succeed are driven by internal ambition. Stock price doesn’t drive them. Ambition and values drive them.

You cannot have faith in people unless you take action to improve and develop them.

You have to create tension between reality and aspiration

The ability to seize initiative is the most essential quality of any truly successful manager.

Effective managers proactively control their tasks and the expectations of their major stakeholders, which allows them to meet strategic goals rather than fight fires.

The judge like a great ponderous djinn stepped through the fire and the flames delivered him up as if he were in some way native to their element.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

Practice love on animals first; they react better and more sensitively.

America's freedom is the example to which the world expires.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies.

Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.

Comparison is a very foolish attitude, because each person is unique and incomparable. Once this understanding settles in you, jealousy disappears.