Calculated risks are part of what you do, but the idea that something completely crazy will work just because it's completely crazy is completely crazy.

Your path and purpose will become crystal clear when you begin to trust your vision.

Concentrate on what will produce results rather than on the results, the process rather than the prize.

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

When I give a speech at a corporate event, I often ask those in attendance, 'Do you know how to tell if you're doing the job?' As heads start whispering back and forth, I provide these clue: 'If you're up at 3 A.M. every night talking into a tape recorder and writing notes on scraps of paper, have a knot in your stomach and a rash on your skin, are losing sleep and losing touch with your wife and kids, have no appetite or sense of humor, and feel that everything might turn out wrong, then you're probably doing the job.'

The dash helps to indicate that the two thoughts are intimately related, and it's less stodgy than a semicolon, which would have performed the same function (and who talks in semicolons?).

There is a weird phenomenon where technology seems to be getting dumber in some ways as it gets smarter.