The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

Don't worry about failure; you only have to be right once.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

Devices are getting smarter - your television, your car - and that means more data spread around. There needs to be a fabric that connects all these devices. That's what we do.

Learn early, learn often.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

Take motherhood: nobody ever thought of putting it on a moral pedestal until some brash feminists pointed out, about a century ago, that the pay is lousy and the career ladder nonexistent.

[Barack] Obama believes you can hold enemy combatants, unlawful enemy combatants at Gitmo without a criminal trial because this is law of war detention.

Once you discover white paint, you'll never wash your underwear again.

States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today.

The stillness of prayer is the most essential condition for fruitful action. Before all else, the disciple kneels down.

I have nothing to say for myself, only that I have always tried to make this earth a little bit better

Why should he who is scared be careful?

I'm unstuck in time. Also, I juggle like mad and have made myself efficient.

You need education. You need subsistence protection. We need jobs and social security. These are preconditions under which it will perhaps be possible to deal with these complex circumstances.