the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

The business of business should not be about money. It should be about responsibility. It should be about public good, not private greed

The bigger you grow, the more intimate communication has to be. It almost has to be belly and belly. As you get bigger and bigger in an organization, everything gets more and more detached and everything is on email or voicemail. That's the worse thing because lack of intimacy is one of the downsides (of growth).

The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.

Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

I wake up every morning thinking...this is my last day. And I jam everything into it. There's no time for mediocrity. This is no damned dress rehearsal.

If you do things well, do them better. Be daring, be first, be different, be just.