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A startup for entrepreneurs is like a baby, and I have five babies so far - experienced father.
If there's one value that is immutable, it's integrity or respect, for others and for yourself.
We live in a world in which we're seeing an increasing gap between the haves and the have-nots.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.
In my next life, I would like to be Charlie Rose or Howard Stern or maybe something in between.
Sometimes you get lucky and things are as easy as you had imagined, but that's rarely the case.
It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.
There was a time when, for anybody between the ages of 15 and 25, music was one, two and three.
Young entrepreneurs should spend an awful lot of time thinking about what they want to go into.
Pioneering companies always try out new things and experiment with new concepts and new things.
When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine.
Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.
When India got independence, entrepreneurs were seen as a bad lot, as people who would exploit.
It's really easy to create a $1 billion company - you just have to solve a $10 billion problem.
Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
Sometimes when you follow your dream; it opens the door for others to be able to follow theirs.
Being your own boss is much superior to working for the man. Including working for your father.
First, only invest in companies that have the potential to return the value of the entire fund.
Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.
When you have new jeans, you don't like the ones you just wore. It's crazy, but that's fashion.
The one thing I take more joy in than anything else in the world is seeing young people develop
The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.
Persuading employees to let go of old values and beliefs and adopt new ones can be challenging.
Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home.
A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.
We do not say anything about future products. We work on them in secret, then we announce them.
It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing.
You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials
Winning is an amazing feeling. You dont get that in business; you dont get that in many things.
When you are talking about, 'I will lose my sanity for real,' that's when it's time to move on.
But we also think that we've got more quite alot more support than any new format has ever had.
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.
Do things that incumbents can't or won't do because it's economically or technically infeasible.
Millions and millions of exuberant monkeys are creating an endless digital forest of mediocrity.
The key relationships in the future will not be between people, but between machines and people.
'Hamilton' is not just the best musical I've ever seen. It may be the best thing I've ever seen.
Three components make an entrepreneur: the person, the idea and the resources to make it happen.
Instead of focusing on the work, you focus on the entropy and the chaos and you get a byproduct.
When things don't go your way, never forget who you are, and always remember the bigger picture.
Do not ask directions from the people around you. Ask directions from the person who called you.
We want to reach out to the young people. We want the hearts of the young people to turn to God.
Dress for success. Image is very important. People judge you by the way you look on the outside.
The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.
The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.
Decide upon your major definite purpose in life and then organize all your activities around it.
If you can get yourself to read 30 minutes a day, you're going to double your income every year.