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

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

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

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

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.

Your current apathy is simply your soul telling you that it is confused.

I have an immense appetite for solitude, like an infant for sleep, and if I don't get enough for this year, I shall cry all the next.

Leadership is a journey - you never arrive.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

If George W. Bush is the kind of person folks might like to have a beer with, John McCain is the guy you pray you don't get seated next to at a dinner party.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

Very few athletes have the chance to be brought into the White House.

I think the whole under-eye-bag thing is hereditary, and I just got lucky.

Dream big with no limitations.