Building businesses takes tremendous stamina, and success isn't achieved without it.

In our house, mother’s day is every day. Father’s day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn’t cut for us.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

In business, staying focused requires that you turn most opportunities down.

Huge open source organizations like Red Hat and Mozilla manage the collaboration of hundreds of people who don't know one another and have spent no time hanging around the water cooler.

When we care about people, we care less about money, and when we care about money, we care less about people.

The truth won't set us free until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.