“Jeff Bezos is opening a retail store and owns a newspaper. Turns out everything we thought about the Internet is wrong.”

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.

If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.

If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

While I had been, I guess, quite brilliant, academically, in my college years, I also had been editor of the paper, and I loved that. And, that was a much more active thing. And I missed it when I was doing graduate work.

Don’t worry over what the newspapers say. I don’t. Why should anyone else? I told the truth to the newspaper correspondents – but when you tell the truth to them they are at sea.

I couldn’t have attended half the parties that I was supposed to have been to according to the newspapers. It bothers me.

In the newspapers there is insulting and stirring up hatred. Those irresponsible daubers!

In a few days, newspapers can make a trivial incident in itself a dangerous issue that shakes the state, and it can also bring vital issues to the fore into oblivion, so that the public will soon forget them.

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.

There is no news media. There’s simply a bunch of people on television and in newspapers who are ranking members of the Democrat Party.

When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts.