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Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.
We sell the movies. Women need to know they are an asset and they are the ones who should be making the money.
The great artists of music have always innovated and boldly changed the game, but the industry itself has not.
Algorithms are great, but they're very limited in what they can do as far as playing songs and playing a mood.
The key to making money in angel investing is saying no. You meet with 100 companies and say no to 99 of them.
You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.
Whenever teenage girls and corporate CEOs covet the same new technology, something extraordinary is happening.
What the iPad does is it opens people's minds to a new way of doing things. They're actually thirsting for it.
They explained to me that the bank cannot lend money to poor people because these people are not creditworthy.
I attend Internet conferences all the time, and they literally make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
Winning our fans' approval will come from all of us doing the right things for the right reasons, me included.
Very often, if a founder is waiting around for someone else to tell him what to do, the company is near death.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle.
Safety is number one at Uber... so we make sure the system is in place so riders get the safest ride possible.
You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.
Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.
I have never compromised on fundamentals. I've always believed in focusing on creating value and not valuation.
Failure is an inside job. So is success. If you want to achieve you have to win the war in your thinking first.
Financial security and independence are like a three-legged stool resting on savings, insurance and investments
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before.
All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.
People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.
I don't think there's nearly enough interesting ways to do education online, particularly for younger children.
As an entrepreneur, you love your business like a child, and you're taught to be laser-focused on the business.
I value an entrepreneur I can get behind and trust, because I know they are attempting to move forward in life.
The only reason you should be an entrepreneur is because that's the only way the idea will come into the world.
Zero invites imagination, but small numbers invite questions about whether large numbers will ever materialize.
Innovation is a bottoms-up, decentralized, and unpredictable thing, but that doesn’t mean it cannot be managed.
At Year Up, we have helped thousands of students rise from poverty into a professional career in a single year.
The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.
America might be a dying empire, but it's not going to die in our lifetime - and it doesn't have to die at all.
If you're not doing something that people will remark on, then it's going to be hard to generate word of mouth.
Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.
We innovate by starting with the customer and working backwards. That becomes the touchstone for how we invent.
The solar system can support a trillion humans. And then we'd have a thousand Mozarts and a thousand Einsteins.
Making eye contact during rough sex is roughly the equivalent of trying to read Dostoyevsky on a rollercoaster.
If you're great, that means you're freaked out that the next day you're not going to be great. You keep trying.
Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
The minute I stopped trying to find the right girl, and started trying to become the right guy...the girl came.
I owe my drive and determination to my upbringing, which instilled in me a set of values that make me who I am.
Wealth won't give you satisfaction; creating a good product that's well received by users is what matters most.
The 2 hardest things you'll have to do when running a company are recruiting and talking people out of leaving.
I have always shouted from the rooftops about my businesses but I had never ever spoken about my personal life.
If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
I do think Bitcoin is the first [encrypted money] that has the potential to do something like change the world.
Every correct answer is necessarily a secret: something important and unknown, something hard to do but doable.
No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.
We're always trying to break the boundaries of what a 'denim brand' can be, and we want to be respected for it.
There are guys I'd love to learn from, but they wouldn't be a good fit for me, so I read their blogs and books.