I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Greatness can only brought through time.

Tonight I will take back what is mine.

The demand for individual freedom leads us to different realms, and it enables us to participate in social events.

This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before.

Like most Rebel soldiers, Sam Watkins owned no slaves.

Funny how mishearing things-or not hearing them at all-can really screw things up

We none of us talk to people as we do behind their backs.

I don't like the drugs, but the drugs like me.

We gild our medicines with sweets; why not clothe truth and morals in peasant garments as well?

I think it would be absolutely reckless and irresponsible for anyone to try and break up Microsoft.