This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Don't discount yourself, no matter what you're doing. Everyone has a unique perspective that they can bring to the world.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

Move fast, take risks, it's okay to try big things you're better off trying something and having it not work and learning from that than having not done anything at all.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

People have really gotten comfortable not only sharing more information and different kinds, but more openly and with more people - and that social norm is just something that has evolved over time.

When you want to change things, you can't please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren't making enough progress.

My number one piece of advice is: you should learn how to program.

If things aren’t breaking, then you’re not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!

I don't like putting people on a pedestal, I think ideas are more exciting

All papas and mammas have exactly that sort of sight which distinguishes objects at a distance clearly, while they need spectacles to see those under their very noses.

Really bad people around the world, because of the genius of American innovation, use our products and infrastructure for their emails, for their communications.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.

I'm not good at selling laptops. I'm good at selling ideas.

I'm from a middle class family. I didn't grow-up rich, but I didn't grow-up poor. Each guy has to stick to his own story.

Healthy thinking is a habit, just like neurotic thinking is a habit.