"You just got ta believe, i have never been a quitter in my life or in my career."

"At this point in my career I'm not concerned about the money, it's about winning. Nothing else even matters."

"I'm not at the point in my career where I want to rebuild."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"Women are capable of doing so many things these days, physically, emotionally, within relationships and career. There are so many things that women have evolved into and I feel really proud about where women are right now."

"Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career."

"Because of his military service, Dad was buried in Arlington National Cemetery."

"Of course any kind of film process has ups and downs and days where you're stuck and have breakthroughs."

I have frequently been questioned, especially by women, of how I could reconcile family life with a scientific career. Well, it has not been easy. 

I love almost everything about my work except conferences. I am too shy in front of an audience. But I love signings and having eye contact with a reader who already knows my soul.

If I want a better-than-average career, I can’t simply ‘go with the flow’ and get it. Most people do just that: they wish for an outcome but make no intention-driven actions toward that outcome. If they would just do something most people would find that they get some version of the outcome they’re looking for. That’s been my secret. Stop wishing and start doing.

I suppose my professional life can be split into writing books that all sound like infomercial products, most notably The 4-Hour Workweek, and then tech investing.

When you’re writing and you start to feel really uncomfortable, that’s when you know you’re starting to get it right. I’d imagine that applies to photography. It applies to everything.

“First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII — and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure.” 

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

For the entire first part of my career, I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances.

I'm not into business at all.

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

The potential financial reward for building the 'next Windows' is so great that there will never be a shortage of new technologies seeking to challenge it.

Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it.

Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career.

Employers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that's associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.

Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education. 

“If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.”