It’s actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It’s hard to be contrarian and right.

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.

I grabbed a shovel and dug, and dug, and dug.Sorry not a very poetic thought, but very deep.

One day, everything will be like before again. And it is not like it.

The high road is littered with pot shots.

No, I can't die because there are too many jackasses falling over themselves to take my place! I may live forever just to spite them!

Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.

What will we and our daughters suffer if these degraded black men are allowed to have the rights that would make them even worse than our Saxon fathers?

I don’t think men have time to be funny because they have to make all of our rules about what we can do with our vaginas.

I'm not a very dark person.

I always have those feelings - lucky and blessed - and I don't know if they'll ever go away. I really hope they don't, as I think it keeps you grounded. That's how I feel about every film I do.

Never answer an anonymous letter.