I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Great products sell themselves.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

There is a difference between desire and desperation.

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

You don't have to live in the country and grow your own food to be green.

So, where's the Cannes Film Festival being held this year?

I came into this whole business by going to see Rock Against Racism gigs with the Clash.

The best way to get to know Africa is to go there and see what it is. To know somewhere that crazy and that magnificent, you have to spend some time among people, the rhythm of their lives.

I regret not finding Osama Bin Laden.

As we learn we always change, and so our perception. This changed perception then becomes a new Teacher inside each of us.

As an artist, I think it is important for us to mark places in history where we have made progress, to celebrate by expressing that reality.