There are things that should be allocated to states' rights - that's Gryffindor - and certain things allocated to the federal government, which is Slytherin.
As I looked across the company, there are three things that keep coming up that we need to work on: culture, our operating rigor, and capital allocation.
The chocolate and crisps come in at times. You have to allow the little things that make you happy. I'm not extreme about what I eat.
If I had been white with the things I did, they never would have allowed me to get out of baseball.
Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.
It seems like almost every day I've been able to cross things off my bucket list.
There's almost nothing that hasn't been said about me. But there's an awful lot that I haven't said. I don't talk about private things.
Every man must do two things alone; he must do his own believing and his own dying.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
It wasn't until we got our first office in Palo Alto where things became more like a company. We never went into this wanting to build a company.
One of the powerful temptations is that of the cinema palace. The cinema has undoubtedly an enormous attraction for boys, and people are constantly cudgelling their brains how to stop it. But it is one of those things which would be very difficult to stop even if it were altogether desirable.
One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.
Ultimately, I'd love to see a legacy company that has alumni that come out of it and go on to create other big things. A maple-syrup mafia, a HootSuite mafia.
To do the things that I did, I'm amazed that I had the audacity - like resigning from the Army and becoming a janitor and a songwriter.
It truly amazes me all the things you can add and mix in to truly transform a plain old bowl of oatmeal.
We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
I'm not a kid anymore. And I'm excited for all the amazing things to come.
Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.
