You can't think your way out of a box; you've got to act.

Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.

Do it, fix it, try it.

Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.