“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...”

“In politics, the pen is at its heaviest because it is weighed down by the collective responsibility it holds towards its people and their future in the eyes of the world.”

“Pender laughed. "Verify? In this day and age? Who cares about verifying anything? It's all about the speed. Who gets there first defines the truth. You know that as well as any man living.”

“It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda-tours.”