The important thing right now is that the economy still needs customers. We still need people to go out there and spend money.
Begin whatever you have to do: the beginning of a work stands for the whole.
If lucky be not proud; if unlucky, do not despond.
Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
He who does not know how to be silent will not know how to speak.
If you are a terror to many, then beware of many.
Be not arrogant when fortune smiles, or dejected when she frowns.
There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.
Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats for your people: batting averages, home runs, errors, ERAs, winloss records. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Listen, open a window to God and begin to delight yourself by gazing upon Him through the opening.
Making money from enforcing patents is no more wrong than investing in preferred stock.