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WordPress, it's a complex tool; it's like the back of a digital SLR... but that doesn't work on a phone.
Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.
As you craft a plan to expand to adjacent markets, don't disrupt: Avoid competition as much as possible.
I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.
I think what's always important is not to be contrarian for its own sake but to really get at the truth.
I have always been of the opinion that the right kind of journalism is a critical part of our democracy.
Reality isn't the way you wish things to be nor the way they appear to be but the way they actually are.
We must motivate ourselves to do our very best, and by our example lead others to do their best as well.
To me, ideas are worth nothing unless executed. They are just a multiplier. Execution is worth millions.
I don't think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That's not a career - it's a life!
Aviation is for the common man. My goal is to enable everyone to fly. It shouldn't be only for the rich.
There's hundreds of millions of people that are card members at AmEx - all of them should be using Uber.
Don't fear the unknown. Embrace the opportunity. Failure is not permanent it is the essence of learning.
Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.
You can keep 'consumer' DNA at the center of your product. That will always mean that adoption is easier.
Messi is the best player of all time. Better than Pele, better than Maradona and better than anyone else.
A lot of people listen to podcasts because they want to learn something and be entertained along the way.
The risk is not in doing something that feels risky. The risk is in not doing something that feels risky.
They get, you know, whatever they want from their earnings, and their earnings go into their own company.
If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now.
If you do not have goals of your own you are doomed forever to work to achieve the goals of someone else.
Refuse to criticize, condemn, or complain. Instead, think and talk only about the things you really want.
Every act of self-discipline increases your confidence, trust, and belief in yourself and your abilities.
Get around the right people. Associate with positive, goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you.
If you conduct yourself as though you expect to be successful and happy, you will seldom be disappointed.
Your self-confidence is directly connected to how much you feel you are making a difference in the world.
You do not need to be different from who you are. You only need to be more of the person you already are.
I always hired widows with children, because they had to work and didn't have any foolishness about them.
If it's torture flying one airline and [yours] is a pleasant experience, it certainly helps your revenue.
When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.
Every problem can be solved as long as they use common sense and apply the right research and techniques.
The right to protect the health and well-being of every person, of those we love, is a basic human right.
This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.
I definitely see a correlation between how many things a company gets right and how fast a company grows.
Don't feel bad about getting someone to click on something if the thing they're clicking on doesn't suck.
As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins.
No matter what one does, regardless of failure or success, the experience is a form of success in itself.
Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.
Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.
A diverse customer base helps insulate you; a few large accounts can leave you vulnerable to their whims.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
We're not competitor obsessed, we're customer obsessed. We start with the customer and we work backwards.
We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.
Everything Dre and I do is completely on feel. We don't prepare for anything... we only work on instinct.
When I started half.com, our three biggest competitors were Borders, Tower Records and Blockbuster Video.
I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.
It turns out that no undergrad class prepares you to start a startup - you learn most of it as you do it.
Andrew Keen was so typically brilliant and entertaining at LeWeb 2007 that we booked him for Le Web 2009.
Sometimes, you have to be frustrated and do something unscalable and a waste of your time to be inspired.