You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

The secret to successful hiring is this: look for the people who want to change the world.

You need to get to the future, ahead of your customers, and be ready to greet them when they arrive.

There is no finish line when it comes to system reliability and availability, and our efforts to improve performance never cease.

The only constant in the technology industry is change.

Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.

You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.

If there wasn't any competition, I'd be very worried, because it would mean we were not doing very well.

I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind

Presentation skills are key. People who work for you represent your brand. You want them to present themselves - and represent you - in a certain way.

I always tell people: Life is the dance between what you desire most and what you fear most. You've got to be able to deal with the threshold of control.

I didn’t care that we were out in public. I didn’t care that he was Moroi. All that mattered was that he was Adrian, my Adrian. My match. My partner in crime.

Helena, like many women who ruled their own lives, adored being told what to do when there was no obligation to follow the advice given.

The addiction to sports, therefore, in a peculiar degree marks an arrested development in man's moral nature.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

The men who are not interested in philosophy need it most urgently; they are most helplessly in its power.

There are no absolutes in raising children. In any stressful situation, fathering is always a roll of the dice. The game may be messy, but I have never found one with more joys and rewards.

You beat the liver out of a goose to get a pâté; you pound the muscles of a man's cardia to get a philosopher.

Look at someone like Ke$ha. I wouldn't say she's got the most rangy, incredible voice, but she's got a thing. She stands for something, and people are buying into that.

Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

The Serbs have only two friends, God and the Greeks.