Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

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.

Don't 'tolerate' mistakes. Embrace them!

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

The new idea either finds a champion or it dies. No ordinary involvement with a new idea provides the energy required to cope with the indifference and resistance that change provokes.

The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.

Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!