If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Poetry is the utterance of deep and heartfelt truth. The true poet is very near the oracle.

She can feel his blood, just beneath his skin; when he breathes, the air fills with smoke. He's like a dragon, ancient and fearless.

I can't understand why most people believe in medicine and don't believe in art, without questioning either.

To all that he touched he gave a new meaning, a new color, a new outline, a new loveliness, and a new poignancy.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him.

I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.

There's nothing routine about 'Boardwalk Empire.' It's like being in some secret society where they call you up and tell you where to go: 'Meet us at the corner of such and so.'

Everybody who knows me knows how I get down.

We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves