You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

I am interested in art as a means of living a life

For {she} had adopted the standard of the young: what there was in the moment was everything. And moments followed one another without necessarily belonging to one another.

Writer. Another word for poor.

Don't trust anyone. Be a cold fish. I hurt no one. And no one can hurt me.

The best revenge is democracy.

We have recognized that the world is changing. How your children are behaving, how their friends are behaving. What they consume and what they watch.

The disconnect lasted too long. I think people got the idea I was sullen and couldn't communicate, which wasn't true.

No true search for enlightenment ignores the suffering of other sentient beings. Ever. We simply need to create a way to address that suffering while remaining in a blissful center.

I didn't become successful until I became myself

You have to believe in the process. You have to believe in the things that you are doing to help the team win. I think you have to take the good with the bad.