"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
"It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain."
"It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference."
"It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts."
"Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
"Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top."
"Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net."
"Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything."
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
"Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done."
"My son is now an 'entrepreneur.' That's what you're called when you don't have a job."
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."
"Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself."
"One of the tests of leadership is the ability to recognize a problem before it becomes an emergency."
"One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do."
"Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products."
"Our business is infested with idiots who try to impress by using pretentious jargon."
"Our favorite holding period is forever."
"Our work is the presentation of our capabilities."
"People will buy anything that is 'one to a customer.'"
"Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
"Profit in business comes from repeat customers, customers that boast about your project or service, and that bring friends with them."
"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."
"Real riches are the riches possessed inside."
"Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader."
"Regard it as just as desirable to build a chicken house as to build a cathedral."
"Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart."
"So little done, so much to do."
"Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can."