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Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path.
I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don't even really need.
I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.
We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.
In a world of growing food demand, Africa is home to two-thirds of the world's unexploited arable land.
Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.
Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results.
Any time you make more than a couple of friends at an event, I think that you actually made no friends.
I just kind of had this naive approach to - well, gee, you know, why not. I’ll just go ahead and do it.
Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.
The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.
Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.
What unleashes action is an individual's willingness to make mistakes - even to look foolish or stupid.
Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.
So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.
I do think actually in this case the government does get credit for funding some of the basic research.
You've heard of plug-and-play. This is plug, unplug and play. It's so simple to use, it's unbelievable.
Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldnt be only for the rich.
There is no quick easy way to the body you want... commit yourself now to your workout and get started.
You have to be willing to stand up for what you believe in, and the rule of law is one of those things.
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
When you're launching a business, you just really want to know somebody deeply to help in how you do it.
My mother's bottom line was truth to her values. It meant bringing your heart and your humanity to work.
We are essentially outsiders and that is the best definition of an entrepreneur I have ever come across.
Be a lifelong student. The more you learn, the more you earn and the more self-confidence you will have.
Avoid negative people at all costs. They are the greatest destroyers of self-confidence and self-esteem.
Successful people tend to become more successful because they are always thinking about their successes.
Failure is a prerequisite for great success. If you want to succeed faster, double your rate of failure.
The definition of flexibility is being constantly open to the fact that you might be on the wrong track.
Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
There are no accidents; success is the result of doing the right thing, in the right way, over and over.
Text is, in some ways, on the way out, unfortunately. There are dating sites now that are just pictures.
Money is being made programmable. That's a fundamental change with implications we can still barely see.
I don't work on a project unless I believe that it will dramatically improve life for a bunch of people.
You can run a business any way you like, but you'll run it better if you build it around your strengths.
I am obligated to and will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the United States government.
We must learn what customers really want, not what they say they want or what we think they should want.
If you can't toot your own horn, toot another woman's! It's the best way to elevate women to be leaders.
I think trusting people is a problem for anyone with an existing audience who wants to do another thing.
Ultimately, the Internet is made of people and we need to do a good job at being citizens of that space.
EBay is a great company. There are a lot of good assets and good customers, and the U.S. people love it.
Forget purpose. It’s okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives.
We like to pioneer, we like to explore, we like to go down dark alleys and see what's on the other side.
Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice. Gifts are easy-they're given after all. Choices can be hard.
Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.
'Instagram' is an app that only took 8 weeks to build and ship but was a product of over a year of work.
I have learned to imagine an invisible sign around each person's neck that says 'Make me feel important.
I believe that in order to be a good leader you must understand the value of praising people to success.