“Accept that no matter where you go to work, you are not an employee - you are a business with one employee, you. Andy Grove, CEO, Intel”

“Our fundamental economic beliefs, which we have elevated from a conviction based on observation to an unquestioned truism, is that the free market is the best of all economic systems—the freer the better. Our generation has seen the decisive victory of free-market principles over planned economies. So we stick with this belief, largely oblivious to emerging evidence that while free markets beat planned economies, there may be room for a modification that is even better.”

“if you base your business on the volume leader, you will be going after a larger business yourself”

“Everything you do matters. Every move you make, every action you take...matters. Not just to you, or your family, or your business or hometown. Everything you do matters to all of us forever.”

“Interviewer: “Andy do you feel that the public has insulted your art?”Andy Warhol: “Uh no.”I: “Why not?”AW: “Uh well I hadn’t thought about it.”I: “It doesn’t bother you at all then?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Well do you think that they have shown a lack of appreciation for what pop art means?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Andy do you think that pop art has sort of reached the point where it’s becoming repetitious now?”AW: “Uh yes.”I: “Do you think it should break away from being pop art?”AW: “Uh no.”I: “Are you just going to carry on?”AW: “Uh yes.”

“But like the best empire builders, he was both very determined and very skeptical. It’s like [former Intel CEO] Andy Grove says, ‘only the paranoid survive.”

“It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.”