“I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.”

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.

When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

I think I’m the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ – I’m pretty annoying, but driven.

Silence moves faster when it’s going backward.

The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.

A good engineer gets stale very fast if he doesn’t keep his hands dirty.

Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me.