Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

I just hope it was okay, I know it wasn't perfect, I hope in the end we can laugh and say it was all worth it.

Reversed [Hillary Clinton's] position on charter schools, reversed her position on changing the way our urban education is run, because she has sold out to the teachers union.

The secret of the universe is this: The universe doesn't care. That part of the job is yours.

It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners / desecrated them.

It will be a beautiful family talk, mean and worried and full of sorrow and spite and excitement.

No one stands taller in the climb to success than when he bends over to help up someone else.

I had a strong identity in mind but then of course I had to trust Didier Dubot's expertise. They've been doing jewelry for so many years.

I didn't even think about suggesting he take the boots off. There'd probably be a apocalypse or something.

The best time to buy a home is always five years ago.

Discrimination, in all its forms, is bad for business.