In a start-up company, you basically throw out all assumptions every three weeks.
— Scott McNealy

Conducting your business in a socially responsible way is good business. It means that you can attract better employees and that customers will know what you stand for and like you for it.
— M. Anthony Burns

You must choose between making money and making sense. The two are mutually exclusive.
— R. Buckminster Fuller

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.
— Nancy Astor

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
— Mark Twain

There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.
— Douglas Macarthur

For every problem, there is one solution, which is simple, neat and wrong.
— Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956

A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.
— Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
— Thomas Alva Edison

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
— Peter F. Drucker