“The most precious resource we have is time.”

We don’t settle for anything less than excellence.

Focusing is about saying No.

Sometimes life is going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith.

The journey is the reward.

Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do.

It doesn’t make sense to hire smart people and tell them what to do; we hire smart people so they can tell us what to do.

Your customers don’t care about you. They don’t care about your product or service. They care about themselves, their dreams, their goals. Now, they will care much more if you help them reach their goals, and to do that, you must understand their goals, as well as their needs and deepest desires.

A brand is simply trust.

Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences.

If you don’t cannibalize yourself, someone else will.

Great things in business are never done by one person, they’re done by a team of people.

You go to your TV to turn your brain off. You go to the computer when you want to turn your brain on.

Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity – not a threat.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle.

The most important decisions you make are not the things you do, but the things you decide not to do.

Manage the top line: your strategy, your people, and your products, and the bottom line will follow.

If you’re running a business for the long term, the last thing you should be doing is borrowing money to buy back stock.

Hire smart people and then get out of their way.

Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.

I try to invest in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them. Because sooner or later, one will.

It’s every man’s business to see justice done.

You need to get one thing done well, or else you don’t have permission to do anything else.

Too many kings can ruin an army.