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We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.
If you're waiting for encouragement from others, you're doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it's probably too late.
My own hope is that, as a human species, we are on a long journey of evolution toward increasingly more tolerant and nonviolent behavior.
You are alive today, and no matter what your condition, make a mark here and now. Opportunity is at every moment, seizing it is pleasure.
When you run an entrepreneurial business, you have hurry sickness - you don't look back, you advance and consolidate. But it is such fun.
Bread pudding makes me weak. I have been known to be moved to tears by cookies and ice cream, and ribs are a spiritual experience for me.
Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'
A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
The future belongs to the competent. It belongs to those who are very, very good at what they do. It does not belong to the well meaning.
We certainly hope that Facebook allows users to connect with their friends on Path and with any other partner applications in the future.
When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.
I think that in the earlier days, when I was a 'wantrepreneur,' I was really doing things because I thought what I wanted was to be rich.
I really strongly believe that we should be judged not by how we acted when we were ignorant, but how we responded when we were informed.
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
The only two people who can give you real feedback about your product are people who just purchased it and people who have just canceled.
No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.
Jeffrey Zeldman had an astonishing ability to craft a seductive coolness using educated references, dry humor, and retro/organic imagery.
There are 100 million blogs in the world, and it's part of my job as the co-founder of WordPress to help many more people start blogging.
The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging.
We prepare our students for jobs and careers, but we don't teach them to think as individuals about what kind of world they would create.
We have done some of these in Bangladesh. Whenever I see a problem, I immediately go and create a company. That's what I did all my life.
I had only immediate things today, only today, not tomorrow. I don't know what will happen tomorrow. Today I can see myself like crystal.
Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.
Every American has a unique identity. I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. But most of all, I am proud to be an American.
The best managers figure out how to get great outcomes by setting the appropriate context, rather than by trying to control their people.
I would have volunteered to work at Netscape. It was the center node of this new technology and the commercial ecosystem of the Internet.
Each industry in a region should develop a playbook that expands and details the strategy and tactics of how to build a scalable startup.
When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something.
To follow the path that others have laid before you is a reasonable course of action; therefore all progress is made by unreasonable men.
What a computer is to me is it's the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with. It's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds.
We did not enter the search business. Google entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won't let them.
I spent a disproportionate amount of my time in a car in L.A. I'm 35 years old. If you add up the hours spent in cars, it would be years.
Once we increase the proportion of women in technical roles, the challenge is to retain them and ease the transition to senior positions.
Tolerance, diversity, and inclusion are not political opinions. They are non-negotiable human rights - hard fought and secured in America.
If trade undermines life, narrows it or impoverishes it, then it can destroy the world. If it enhances life, then it can better the world.
What we are trying to do is to create a new business paradigm, simply showing that business can have a human face and a social conscience.
Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
I went to boarding school Southern, religious, and straight, and I left boarding school not being at all religious and not being straight.
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
It is very, very hard to do that ballroom dancing and I am going to be nowhere near it. Now if you have a hot dog eating contest, call me.
FUBU is pretty well licensed out in China and Asia. In America it's a little more of a challenge, obviously, because it's a branded sport.
We need to reengineer companies to focus on figuring out who the customer is, what's the market and what kind of product you should build.
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it.
I tell the government, if people have no jobs, you are in trouble. Government will be in trouble. My job is to help more people have jobs.
Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.
I've become addicted to playing poker because you're constantly faced with confusion, and winning is trying to make sense out of nonsense.
As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.
People pulling 16-hour days on a regular basis are exhausted. They're just too tired to notice that their work has suffered because of it.
If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.