If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

I believe in strength over lack of weakness.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.