“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.”

“If everything you do needs to work on a three-year time horizon, then youre competing against a lot of people. But if youre willing to invest on a seven-year time horizon, youre now competing again...”

“For me, the two weeks between Christmas and Twelfth Night have come to be reserved for desultory reading. The pressure of the holiday is over, the weather outside is frightful, there are lots of le...”

“Frank Capra's grandson was a second Assistant Director on 'Christmas Vacation.'”

“I'd like to dial it back 5% or 10% and try to have a vacation that's not just e-mail with a view.”

“Every evil starts with 15 volts.”

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”

“Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.”

“You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.”

“Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool w...”