The only way to get ahead is to find errors in conventional wisdom.

... Don't mistake any of this for altruism...Fear and greed just doesn't work. If you want to be successful, quality and service just works better.

What can a sales person say to somebody to get them to buy a product that they already use every day if they don't like it? Nothing.

Act confident, even when you're not.

Once open source gets good enough, competing with it would be insane.

In order to grow at this pace, there will have to be a couple of acquisitions along the way. The tricky thing is to grow at this rate and maintain a 40 percent operating margin.

Both my mother and I were determined that we weren't going to stay on welfare. We always worked toward doing better, toward having a better life. We never had any doubts that we would.