“Let’s go invent tomorrow.”

I’m as proud of what we don’t do as I am of what we do.

You can’t look at the competition and say you’re going to do it better. You have to look at the competition and say you’re going to do it differently.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Creativity comes from spontaneous meetings, from random discussions.

We have always been shameless about stealing great ideas.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

I’m convinced that about half of what separates successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.

I want to put a ding in the universe.

If you’re afraid of failing you won’t get very far.

Learn continually – there’s always “one more thing” to learn!

If you define the problem correctly, you almost have the solution.

The best innovation is sometimes the company, the way you organize the company.

Focusing is all about saying no.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Customers don’t measure you on how hard you tried, they measure you on what you deliver.

We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it’s a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.

I should say in general the advantage of education is to better fit a man for life’s work. I would advise young men to take a college course, as a rule, but think some are just as well off with a thorough business training.

Always do business as if the person you’re doing business with is trying to screw you, because he probably is. And if he’s not, you can be pleasantly surprised.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

It has always been my rule in business to make everything count.

Be patient with me, dear heart. The art of loving is a peculiar business when one has spent an eternity hating themselves.

All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.