The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

I think one can tell a lot about a person from the way he chooses to let the stub of his cigarette burn out...

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

I am a teacher. And I think I am a serious one who happens to be enjoying life.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

coming to the end of spring / my grandmother kicks off her shoes / steps out of her faltering body.

Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?

NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS If we are to be who we are; if we are to accomplish great things; then we must learn the heart's most essential rule: NEVER SURRENDER DREAMS

Words and ideas are a description of reality, silence is a negation of reality. What is the reality itself?

I'm far, far, far from that. But of course, that's one of the joys of acting is that you can move up in the world, even if - you know, in the characters that you're playing, even if you don't.