I manage through a sense of humor. We all work hard, and work has to be a really interesting, fun place. And that has to start at the top.

If you think you can't, you're right.

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.

You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.

If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.

If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.

It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.

Steve Jobs came back to Apple in 1997 - the iPod came out 4 years later. 3 years after that is the first time his market cap grew. It took 7 years.

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my hamster’s cage was clean, I’d be happy to oblige.

It always a blessing to learn the wisdom from elderly people.

...children are at heart selfish, and reasonably so, for they are programmed for survival.

I like to use research to enlarge the poem. And sometimes a rhetorical or syntactical gesture stitches the poem along.

Had a nice conversation with Tim Cook today. Discussed my opinion that a larger buyback should be done now. We plan to speak again shortly.

I spent a lot of my life schlepping around New York with people not doing things for me.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

The heart that is at rest grows and develops from anything.

Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

Women are lining up to marry me. Legend has it, I know how to do it.