I'm not sure a lot of companies know their story, or can explain why they exist and who they are, without just spewing just corporate speech.

The democratic approach to news is a very valuable thing. We're always going to be dependent on the quality of reporting of mainstream media.

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

If it's one thing we do really well as a company, it's that we take big change slowly and deliberately and bring the community along with us.

I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

The Mesh difference is that with GPS-enabled mobile Web devices and social networks, physical goods are now easily located in space and time.

Any time you stand in line at the D.M.V. and look around, you're like, Oh, my God, I wish all these people were replaced by computer drivers.

My principal professional objective is to introduce intelligence as the ubiquitous utility. I'd like to be the Thomas Edison of intelligence.

Never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.

Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations.

The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?

I think Republicans need to have their staffers reading less Ayn Rand and having them read Dr. Viktor Frankl's Man's Search For Meaning more.

Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky were not classical musicians while they were alive and active, they were the rock stars of their day.

Surge pricing only kicks in in order to maximize the number of trips that happen and therefore reduce the number of people that are stranded.

For me, campaigning and good business is also about putting forward solutions, not just opposing destructive practices or human rights abuses.

The time to realize that you need to transition out of your job is when you know that you've grown out of the role that you were doing before.

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child's foot.

Giving builds loyal customers and turns those customers into supporters... You can find passion and profit and meaning all at once, right now.

Anyone can make a difference, so you don't have to have it be some huge, global campaign... you can start small, and that's just as important.

Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.

...decide for yourself what makes you truly happy and then organize your life around it. Write down your goals and make plans to achieve them.

The fact is that you can't do everything that you have to do. You have to procrastinate on something. Therefore, procrastinate on small tasks.

Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocaldecision that you are going to either do something or stop doing something.

Move fast. A sense of urgency is the one thing you can develop that will separate you from everyone else. When you get a good idea, do it now.

Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect.

You keep customers by delivering on your promises, fulfilling your commitments and continually investing in the quality of your relationships.

People everywhere have the same needs and values. They need a place to live and a job. Beyond that, they may need to sell stuff or get a mate.

We've got to keep 6 billion people happy without destroying our planet. It's the biggest challenge we've ever faced....but we're taking it on.

When I was 12 years old, I went to swim in a lake, and I almost died in that lake because the water was too deep - much deeper than I thought.

Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.

Search folks don't understand editorial. I'm not afraid of editorial costs, just like machine-search folks are not afraid of computer servers.

Customers don't just buy a product - they switch from something else. And customers don't just leave a product - they switch to something else

I think frugality drives innovation, just like other constraints do. One of the only ways to get out of a tight box is to invent your way out.

All I ever really work for is to be a really good engineer, a good producer, a good executive, good in the world of Beats. That's power to me.

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

I do think there is this danger that our society has made its peace with decline. I'd like to jolt them out of their complacency a little bit.

Music companies are not technology companies any more than technology companies are music companies. They're really different from each other.

We like to think of Uber as the cross between lifestyle and logistics, where lifestyle is what you want and logistics is how you get it there.

I was the straight-A student but sort of a little bit of debating my parents all the time, trying to find when they weren't logically correct.

In a conversation with a male executive, he tells me that he doesn't hire women because 'it's not worth the trouble.' I mentally blacklist him.

According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis.

Positive emotional energy is the key to health, happiness and wellbeing. The more positive you are, the better your life will be in every area.

Find something that you love. Something that gets you so excited you can't wait to get out of bed in the morning. Forget about money. Be happy.

People have to listen to somebody speak, that the person that you're listening to is saying the right stuff, and that's all that really counts.

Food tech has been kind of an area that we have been making a number of investments in. Kind of a big boring industry, but a lot of people eat.

The cost to do business in Australia is higher, and the lack of scale is a part of that - Australia is a very small market compared to the U.S.

I believe there are so many other disciplines and themes that we still haven't explored yet. It's infinite what we can apply our creativity to.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

30% of all people will never believe you. Do not allow your colleagues and employees to work for you. Instead, let them work for a common goal.

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