The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.

I'm happy with studio infiltration, but I'm thrilled when I see 12- to 20-year olds walking down the street with Beats and not two-dollar earbuds.

I always try to go where the excitement is, where the best music is. I don't care what kind of music it is. I go with the best artist we can find.

Education is what people do to you. Learning is what you do to yourself. Focus on being connected, always learning, fully aware and super present.

I don't think Philadelphia's challenge is in coming up with great ideas or having great founders. I think the real challenge is keeping them here.

The Mesh is about creating and managing what's perishable. It provides businesses with the ability to reach an audience of one, at a precise time.

You might say that I was the first and caused others to awaken to the sense of their duty in helping deserving causes for the benefit of the race.

Over two billion people now use the broadband Internet, up from perhaps 50 million a decade ago, when I was at Netscape, the company I co-founded.

Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you've created until it's out there.

I don't care how someone lives or how good their spoken English is. I do all of my interviews on Skype text chat - all that matters is their work.

Poverty is the absence of all human rights. The frustrations, hostility and anger generated by abject poverty cannot sustain peace in any society.

The biggest thing the money Infosys brought me is the freedom to do what I want. And what I want is to give millions more the opportunities I had.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.

The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

In order for fashion to progress, we have to always be willing to invest in someone or something new and embrace risks, regardless of the economy.

Entrepreneurship is an addiction to being successful, not a job or career. You have to feed the addiction and recharge from it or you'll burn out.

My cosmetic range, easy4Men, is not going that well. It's meant to be for the no-nonsense man, but now I don't know if the no-nonsense man exists.

I've lived in Jakarta and have seen a lot more by living here, and I understand that there's so much more to Indonesia than just Bali and Jakarta.

When you have a few billion people connected with screens, not voice... screens are important. You can transmit a thousand times more information.

If civilization is going to survive, business and policy-makers must move on, to find within themselves more developed emotions than fear or greed.

If I had learned more about business ahead of time, I would have been shaped into believing that it was only about finances and quality management.

Setbacks and fear are inevitable. The thing that distinguishes the ultimate successes from the ultimate failures is this: What do you do with them?

If you want to go to Spain or you want to go to France or you want go to [any] southern European countries, [Lisbon] is a great place to [connect].

Most of the time you will fail, but you will also occasionally succeed. Those occasional successes make all the hard work and sacrifice worthwhile.

I started to have notoriety in my late 20s or early 30s - like the first time someone recognized me in public was probably when I was 29 years old.

Helping doing business easier, we choose the name Alibaba because it is a global company. It is founded in China, but it was created for the world.

Arguing with people is like reading your e-mail at 4 in the morning. There is absolutely no good that can come of it. It's just scratching an itch.

One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don't choose your passions; your passions choose you.

It was frustrating that young people, through no fault of their own, were listening to terrible $2 ear buds. You can't get good sound out of those.

There's just no way to stop a movement in popular culture. It's going to happen, with or without you. There's absolutely no way to stop that train.

There are a lot more companies with a lot younger people. It is just like 23-year-olds are starting companies, and they are scaling really quickly.

The good news about building a company during times like this is that the companies that do succeed are going to be extremely strong and resilient.

Leaders teach. They motivate. They care. Leaders make sure that the way to success is always broad enough and straight enough for others to follow.

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.

130 of Automattic's 150 employees work outside of our San Francisco headquarters. Why are so many companies stuck in this factory model of working?

People might start with LiveJournal or Blogger, but if they get serious, they'll graduate to WordPress. We try to cater to the more powerful users.

What drives me? Surrounding myself with amazing talent to craft a breakthrough product which can be used by millions of people to change the world.

The problem is that many times people suspend their common sense because they get drowned in business models and Harvard business school teachings.

If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa.

It's because Gandhi believed in villages and because the British ruled from the cities; therefore, Nehru thought of New Delhi as an un-Indian city.

Success begins at that magical moment when you declare to yourself, your friends, and the universe that you believe you can do something different.

The big challenge with Internet financial services has been that it's very difficult to get large numbers of customers to sign up for your service.

Truly brilliant marketing happens when you take something most people think of as a weakness and reposition it so people think of it as a strength.

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Measuring how hard your team is working by counting the number of hours they work or what time they get in and leave is how amateurs run companies.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

One of the most intriguing things in management and in business is the role of storytelling - people need the anecdotes to do the work that they do.

He's a guy who's gonna die in that chair, putting together some big deal. I don't think Donald Trump will ever stop. He truly loves what he's doing.

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