Business isn't some disembodied bloodless enterprise. Profit is fine - a sign that the customer honors the value of what we do. But "enterprise" ( a lovely word ) is about heart. About beauty. It's about art. About people throwing themselves on the line. It's about passion and the selfless pursuit of an ideal.

Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.

Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.

If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.

We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.