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.

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.

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.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

You expect me to come and work for you dressed up as a man?” I gasped.

I don't sleep. I just let my body lie itself into numbness and lie to myself that I can't hear, see, or feel anything.

I won't cry. When the guilt is this heavy, you can't. It just settles and stays with you, and it's cold.

The ideal situation would be to bypass all of the drama and mayhem and just get the music right to the people. I'm confident that we'll eventually figure it out.

It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.

If you bring forth what is within you, it will save you. If you do not bring it forth, it will destroy you.

I've always thought of myself as a reporter.

The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.