The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

I've been developing mobile for years before anybody else really thought it was that important.

She will not bow her head to any woman or man, so why, indeed, should she bow to a needle?

I think therefore I seem to be.

Comedy is a very, very, very stringent business.

There is no case where ignorance should be preferred to knowledge - especially if the knowledge is terrible.

Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

I'm in the reporting part of journalism.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

The key to change is letting go of the fear.

To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?