Until you have enough money accumulated, sacrifice luxury. Sacrifice TV, time out, and even time with your family and friends.

Create experiences that leave you in awe, for these will be the highlights of your life.

If it's important you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.

Potential is the one power you always have.

Don’t let anyone steal your milk.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Steve Jobs is someone I've studied inside and out, and I've applied so many of his techniques and philosophies to my businesses. It's a remote mentorship because I've never met him.

There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.

Do more than is required. What is the distance between someone who achieves their goals consistently and those who spend their lives and careers merely following? The extra mile.

My home is not a place

If you put a money sign in front of your eyes, how will you see the world?

Freedom of the mind requires not only, or not even especially the absence of legal constraints but the presence of alternative thoughts.

Nilekani's technocratic obsession with gathering data is consistent with that of Bill Gates, as though lack of information is what is causing world hunger.

There's already been some trouble for Osama bin Laden in the afterlife. There was a mix up and he was greeted by 72 vegans.

Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.

Any way to make a workout feel like playtime is great.

Home-made bread rubbed with garlic and sprinkled with olive oil, shared-with a flask of wine-between working people, can be more convivial than any feast.

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend, or wise man can decide what's right for you.

If you've lived a bad life, they send you to Hell. But if you've been truly wicked, they give you a tour of Heaven first.