My life isn't over and I'm not going to sit in a rocking chair and take money from the government.

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

If a company in Australia has to pay tax and the other one doesn't, of course it's a disadvantage.

Never give up. Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine.

I think Google's a brilliant company, filled with brilliant people who have done brilliant things.

If you double the number of experiments you do per year you're going to double your inventiveness.

In Seattle you haven't had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it's running.

Nothing turns off an investor more than when an entrepreneur comes in with a ridiculous valuation.

Being born into poverty does not mean you are condemned to spend the rest of your life in poverty.

Founders: there is no shame in failing, take pride in that you have the guts to try something new.

My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.

In absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily acts of trivia.

To be frank, I don't think President Obama gives much thought to Africa - or gives much to Africa.

Make as much money as you can, but can you please pay your taxes, because this is a major problem.

The interesting thing about London is that there are always stylish surprises around every corner.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

The world's better off the more Silicon Valleys there are and the more scaled companies there are.

The business model is both the starting point and the scorecard for Customer Development progress.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

When you’re in a startup, the first ten people will determine whether the company succeeds or not.

If somebody can offer value at a cheaper price, they should. But that also means Uber should, too.

Taking risks and being focused, sometimes, are at odds. Both are required to build a great company.

You've got to be hungry - for ideas, to make things happen and to see your vision made into reality

if companies are in business solely to make money, no consumer can fully trust what they do or say.

Flood your mind continually with pictures of the health, happiness, and prosperity that you desire.

Be intensely result-oriented in everything you do. This is a key characteristic of high performers.

If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did.

The difference between the hero and the coward is that the hero sticks in there five minutes longer

The greatest poverty in America today is time poverty. People have money, but they don't have time.

One of the things that drives me is the excitement that I could fail. What better buzz can you get?

The tragedy is women of color have made more progress in basketball than they have in broadcasting.

When someone says, 'You can't,' what it really means is that they can't - so why should you get to?

We're focused on growing the pie so the artists can go back to making a meaningful amount of money.

I won't say that 'shotgun' is the word I'd prefer to use, but we certainly do a lot of investments.

Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Customers should be number 1, Employees number 2, and then only your Shareholders come at number 3.

The poor also are willing to make, and do make, smart decisions, if you give them that opportunity.

What farmers gain most of all from the increase in agricultural productivity, of course, is choice.

Sometimes very small investments can release enormous, infinite potential that exists in all of us.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

If the founder comes to work every day, and it's a struggle, that permeates the whole organization.

It's perfectly healthy-encouraged, even- to have an idea tomorrow that contradicted your idea today

It is very difficult to get people to focus on the most important things when you're in boom times.

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.

I couldn't make a headphone look like a piece of medical equipment or a toy, as most headphones do.

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