“Modularize, don’t customize. Build a platform as opposed to building all of the custom technology and custom vertical experiences.”

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.

There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

All we’re really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago… it’s just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn’t have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

We didn’t really start the company to go build an enterprise software company.

You can look at the cost structure of an incumbent company and discover: where are they not going to be able to drop their prices… because that business model is fundamental to the existence of the company.

Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed – just in the last 5 years.

These are the building blocks of a superior quality of life.

Any relationship between a building and its users is one of violence, for any use means the intrusion of a human body into a given space, the intrusion of one order into another.

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

Build your own gimmick and hype, and that’ll make you a better powerlifter. Not just doin’ it like James does it, cause if you try to fly off the building like superman you’ll be out there in the middle of the street.

When I was working in my first job engineering construction, what I liked the most was working with architects and making buildings that had this creative side coming from the architect and that were making them a big success.

I am building a stairway to the stars. I have the authority to take the whole of mankind up there with me. That is why I write.

We have not come to compete with one another. We have come to complete one another.

Concepts differentiate architecture from mere building…A bicycle shed with a concept is architecture; a cathedral without one is just a building.