In a truly great company profits and cash flow become like blood and water to a healthy body: They are absolutely essential for life but they are not the very point of life

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

If I'm going really, really fast, I can do a page of finished text a day, on average.

I don't know where we should take this company, but I do know that if I start with the right people, ask them the right questions, and engage them in vigorous debate, we will find a way to make this company great.

The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconsistency.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

Those who turn good organizations into great organizations are motivated by a deep creative urge and an inner compulsion for sheer unadulterated excellence for its own sake.