I need to aspire to be a great CEO and not just a great product engineer.

An experience like that changes your perspective on life and on the world

Dare to grow into your dreams and claim this as your motto: Let it be me.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.

Print is at the very, very top in the fashion business - of course it is.

Silicon Valley is the best place to start a tech company in so many ways.

In fact, we just surpassed our first 1 million simultaneous users online.

The difference between success and failure is often about 5% more effort.

Failures teach you more, there's always something fundamental about them.

Anything is possible if you put your mind to it and you really work hard.

You have to trust in something--your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever.

All the work I've done in my life will be obsolete by the time I'm fifty.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

We want to get to the point that using Uber is cheaper than owning a car.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'Fore!', shoot six, and write down five.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.

History rewards those who can change their minds when the stakes are high.

The difference between who you are and who you want to be, is what you do.

Keep your word. Honor commitments, and they will double back to honor you.

If whatever you do helps just one person, you've done something wonderful.

Eighty percent of life's satisfaction comes from meaningful relationships.

Spend unbroken chunks of time with the most important people in your life.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

I'm encouraged by what I see of men trying to be there for their children.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

New ideas in technology are literally a dime-a-dozen, or cheaper than that

A lot of times naysayers are just people that have not taken the time yet.

We didn't reinvent the circus. We repackaged it in a much more modern way.

When systems are broken, it's an opportunity for invention and innovation.

The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

Unless you are a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy.

I have a gift: I'm very lucky to be able to spot when a person is special.

Teens just understand the world in ways I don't think any of us adults do.

The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.

I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man.

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.

While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.

Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

Of the six people who started PayPal, four had built bombs in high school.

If you think your initial market might be too big, it almost certainly is.

I suspect Obama did not know he was recording Angela Merkel's cell phones.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Even by Silicon Valley standards, PayPal's vision was massively ambitious.

The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work

The were good times, there were hard times, but there were never bad times

It is piracy, not overt online music stores, which is our main competitor.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

The meek shall inherit the earth, but they'll never increase market share.

That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.

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