I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

Are you lazy or just incompetent?

A lot of people – and I’m just not one of them – believe that you should live for the now. I think what you do is think about the great expanse of time ahead of you and try to make sure that you’re planning for that in a way that’s going to leave you ultimately satisfied. This is the way it works for me.

Go to bed early and wake up early. The morning hours are good.

I've not seen an effective manager or leader who can't spend some fraction of time down in the trenches... If they don't do that they get out of touch with reality, and their whole thought and management process becomes abstract and disconnected.

We were hoping to build a small profitable company; and of course, what we've done is build a large, unprofitable company.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.