I lived on couches for something like six months. I had no home. I was totally broke. I would stay at a friend's house for two weeks, then move because I didn't want to become this permanent mooch.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

You must always think big while you start small.

Pack animals always tear apart the weaklings in their midst. Every child knows that much instinctively.

I should think a poet president would be able to create a delectable confluence of various spaces. A poet is most political.

Basically, if I ever went and worked on a crime drama or something, it was usually just for the work.

Everyone is dividing based on demographic categories.

Soft and faire goes farre.

At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

Twitter lets me hear from a lot of people in a very short period of time.

Whoever envies another confesses his superiority.