Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing.
I'd rather be right than consistent.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
It is better to do something than to do nothing while waiting to do everything.
When you're 20 you care what everyone thinks, when you're 40 you stop caring what everyone thinks, when you're 60 you realize no one was ever thinking about you in the first place. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.
If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.
I run because it always takes me where I want to go.
At some point in the next century the number of invented languages will probably overtake the number of surviving natural languages.
But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees.
No matter what you do, at the end of the day you can't please everybody. I'm not hear to please.