Be proud of your choices, not your gifts.

What's dangerous is not to evolve.

If you never want to be criticized, for goodness sake don't do anything new.

Percentage margins don't matter. What matters always is dollar margins: the actual dollar amount. Companies are valued not on their percentage margins, but on how many dollars they actually make, and a multiple of that.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

The death knell for any enterprise is to glorify the past -- no matter how good it was.

You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.