Walter Isaacson Quotes

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Dating is pressure and tension. What is a date, really, but a job interview that lasts all night?

It's my job for Oracle, the number two software company in the world; to become the number one software company in the world. My job is to build better than the competition, sell those products in the marketplace and eventually supplant Microsoft and move from being number two to number one.

You see, when weaving a blanket, an Indian woman leaves a flaw in the weaving of that blanket to let the soul out.

This is something I consider Enlightenment to be - and that is to give intellectual or spiritual understanding and to be free of ignorance, false beliefs or prejudice. Able to honor each person as they walk their own path and not infringe our own personal beliefs onto them but to accept what ever form that carries truth for them

You can't marginalize more than half of the globe's population and expect to see any meaningful solutions to the problems that ail the world.

People who fail focus on what they will have to go through; people who succeed focus on what it will feel like at the end.

You have everything you need to build something far bigger than yourself.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”—this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

It isn't hard to be good from time to time in sports. What is tough, is being good every day.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

The real person you are is revealed in the moments when you're certain no other person is watching. When no one is watching, you are driven by what you expect of yourself.

Security is a kind of death.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

Some people procrastinate so much that all they can do is run around like firefighters all day - putting out fires that should not have gotten started in the first place.

You must feel love within, before you can share it.

The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see; and in that record you can find yourself and your country both examples and warnings; fine things to take as models, base things rotten through and through, to avoid.