“Your customers get better when you do.”

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

What I do best is share my enthusiasm.

A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything.

The need to communicate effectively with your customers will come up again and again.

My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.

I don’t know’ has become ‘I don’t know yet’.

My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college.

Some people may call me a nerd. I claim the label with pride.

The vision is really about empowering workers giving them all the information about what’s going on so they can do a lot more than they’ve done in the past.

Legacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.

It’s hard to improve public education – that’s clear.

The first five years have so much to do with how the next 80 turn out.

Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.

What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.

It’s very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

A lot of success in life and business comes from knowing what you want to avoid: early death, a bad marriage, etc.

We have found in a long life that one competitor is frequently enough to ruin a business.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!

We have no patent on anything we do and anything we do can be copied by anyone else. But you can’t copy the heart and the soul and the conscience of the company.

Three rules for a career: 1) Don’t sell anything you wouldn’t buy yourself; 2) Don’t work for anyone you don’t respect and admire; and 3) Work only with people you enjoy.