American Quotes

Evangelism is selling a dream.

Entrepreneurship is not for everyone.

Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.

Companies in Europe should stop trying to do the U.S. version of a European idea.

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.

Ambitious failure, magnificent failure, is a very good thing.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'.

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.

Don't worry, be crappy. Revolutionary means you ship and then test... Lots of things made the first Mac in 1984 a piece of crap - but it was a revolutionary piece of crap.

What I lack in talent, I compensate with my willingness to grind it out. That's the secret of my life.

The jewelry business is a very, very tough business - tougher than the computer business. You truly have to understand how to take care of your customers.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

Smart, well-meaning people get it wrong when they start believing that the world owes them something and that the rules are different for them.

Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

My father was not a political animal.

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

I've often been accused of spending more time and energy criticizing my fellow Democrats than criticizing Republicans.

I'm not anti-immigration.

I'm not a Wall Street expert, but I can read the papers.

I'm fortunate to make any money as a blogger.

I may have been the only candidate in America who failed to ride the wave of anti-establishment anger to victory.