I watched my parents act as completely equal partners in their relationship, and as a son to a woman I respect immensely, I never thought of gender inequality as a child.

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.

Your Eyes Travel a Thousand Miles, But your mind will travel even more

Optimists are usually inexperienced.

I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.

Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!

No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends as to give them no cause to miss him less.

When people ask me how I was able to make so much money in the market during a 20-year period, I would always say I did it off the misunderstandings of others.

The USA are a goal down, and if they don't get a goal they'll lose.

If a player is not performing, there are two ways of looking at it. You wait for performance to come, or maybe the moment has arrived where you have to change. I could go either way.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

We should work on our process, not the outcome of our processes.