Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

Hire and promote first on the basis of integrity; second, motivation; third, capacity; fourth, understanding; fifth, knowledge; and last and least, experience.

Community is composed of that which we don't attempt to measure, for which we keep no record and ask no recompense. Most are things we cannot measure no matter how hard we try.

The reason is still difficult to explain, but it is not complicated. That inner voice that will not be denied, once we learn to listen to it, had whispered since the beginning, "Business is not what your life is about. Founding VISA and being its chief executive officer is something you must do, but it's only preparatory."

Language was a huge expansion of that capacity to deal with information.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Every mind is a room packed with archaic furniture.