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You only ever experience two emotions: euphoria and terror. And I find that lack of sleep enhances them both.
If you think you can execute a previously failed idea, you just have to be able to show that now is the time.
Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.
If people were super-optimistic about technology there would be no reason to be pessimistic about the future.
We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.
What's got me excited about the education space is the growth of the Internet over the next 10, 20, 30 years.
Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.
I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.
I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.
People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business
One can make the case that the New York venture capital industry is rooted in the 21st century, not the 20th.
So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
Our goal is to have YouTube on every screen - to take it from the PC to the living room and the mobile phone.
Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
You have to have a lot of passion for what you do... because if you don't, any rational person would give up.
When the sales guys run the company, the product guys do not matter so much, and a lot of them just turn off.
In your life you only get to do so many things and right now we've chosen to do this, so let's make it great.
90% of the people in the stock market, professionals and amateurs alike, simply haven't done enough homework.
Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.
Plenty of entrepreneurs can start a company. What is more rare is to evolve it and to scale with it over time.
If you are not something, how do you become it? It is not obvious to me that you can be something you are not.
My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love and a powerful force for good.
the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware.
Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.
Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.
Practice Golden-Rule 1 of Management in everything you do. Manage others the way you would like to be managed.
Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
Self-acceptance begins in infancy, with the influence of your parents and siblings and other important people.
What activities, behaviors, or decisions have been most responsible for your success in life? Do more of them.
You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.
The more feedback you give to people, the better it is, as long as the feedback is objective and not critical.
I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
I've got no idea when I am going to retire. Whenever they pick me up and take me to the funeral home, I guess.
You speak things into existence, but there's a gift and a curse with that. You got to be careful what you say.
I'm just interested in building a company that doesn't necessarily change lives but adapts people's behaviour.
My role has been limited to focus on fiduciary obligations to our investors as a general partner of our funds.
Be it $15 million here and $11 million there, it takes hundreds of millions to be successful in this business.
Everybody has to be able to participate in a future that they want to live for. That's what technology can do.
There's an idealization of being an entrepreneur, but the most important thing is to have a really great idea.
What I really want out of life is to discover something new: something mankind didn't know was possible to do.
Sustainable growth is characterized by one simple rule: New customers come from the actions of past customers.
Robots have solved and will continue to solve so many human problems. Except for all the ones that they cause.
I have not come to having a healthy ego through being complimented by Internet strangers, I was born that way.
We should keep on going along the path of globalization. Globalization is good... when trade stops, war comes.
Entrepreneurs love to view risk as binary. The more you put on the line, the greater the potential for reward.
A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.
The reason we chose vertical landing as our recovery architecture is that vertical landing scales really well.