I have shifted my mindset in terms of how companies should... focus on building amazing products. If you have amazing products, the marketing of those products is trivial.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

Every one of us see many nightmares every day, not in our sleeps but with our very own eyes: The poverty! The most real and the most common nightmare of all times!

I can survive either love or insanity. But not both. And you bring me both.

Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.

Conflict is growth trying to happen.

I could release myself into acting in a way that I was not released socially.

I am a little boy but I am going to do something really big in times to come.

America is a very fundamentalist society. It's like Iran in the degree of fanatic religious commitment.

We used to get published a lot. And there was this vodka advertisement... it embarrassed me a lot afterwards.

We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.

The historic function of a Senator from Oregon is to drive all the other Senators mad.