You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation’s future.

Life is not fair, get used to it.

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

Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

I am not in competition with anyone but myself. My goal is to improve myself continuously.

The world won’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Patience is a key element of success.

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn’t they?

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Of my mental cycles, I devote maybe 10% to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want that on my business card.

If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

If geek means you’re willing to study things, and if you think science and engineering matter, I plead guilty. If your culture doesn’t like geeks, you are in real trouble.

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

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

Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping – they called it opportunity.