“I wanted a woman who could get me out of a Third World prison. Life's too short to hang out with people who aren't resourceful.”

“Position yourself with something that captures your curiosity, something that you're missionary about.”

“The missionary is building the product and building the service because they love the customer, because they love the product, because they love the service. The mercenary is building the product o...”

“Cultures arent so much planned as they evolve from that early set of people.”

“No business can continue to shrink. That can only go on for so long before irrelevancy sets in.”

“We can't be in survival mode. We have to be in growth mode.”

“If you hire people just because they can do a job, theyll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, theyll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.”

“My model for business is The Beatles. They were four guys who kept each other kind of negative tendencies in check. They balanced each other and the total was greater than the sum of the parts. Tha...”

“Dont worry, Im not quitting. Ive decided Im going to stay andmake his life a living hell while I run his business into the ground.--Kim to Abe”

“Julius used to say that we stood on the shoulders of giants. To me it always seemed like we were in their shadow. It never occurred to me that we were the shadow that they projected, and that one d...”