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The great danger of dealing with venture capitalists is the 'slow maybe'.

Fast growth in a start-up is a sign that customers like what you're doing.

Why didn't I just throw my money out of the window - and light it on fire?

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

The internet is the most underutilized advertising medium that's out there.

Being an entrepreneur is hard. Having supportive and caring investors helps.

Great companies don't throw money at problems, they throw ideas at problems.

The most pro-business thing you can do is to help middle-class people thrive.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

Given New York City's cultural diversity, it has always attracted creative people.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

I would like to reiterate that I don't want any profiles of me. I am not newsworthy.

There is a difference between hiring a CEO and turning over control of the business.

I fundamentally believe in term limits, for Congress, presidents, and board members.

There's never been a better time than now to start or accelerate a greentech venture.

The only really expensive thing in our family budget, frankly, is private air travel.

When Facebook went public, they didn't have a particularly strong model of governance.

I'm really interested in the intersection between reputation, identity, and knowledge.

I'm a free speech bigot. I don't like censorship; I just don't think it's a good thing.

Amazon didn't create any jobs. Amazon probably destroyed a million jobs in our economy.

How do you create jobs? Our companies have generated about 350,000 jobs and that's good.

Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible.

The overtime threshold is to the middle class as the minimum wage is to low-wage workers.

Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

Every social network on Earth pitches me, and I say no to nearly every single one of them.

It's upsetting to me that you have to be a millionaire to invest in your friend's start-up.

The thing about us businesspeople is that we love our customers rich and our employees poor.

I believe Android will be stronger in the developing world than it is in the developed world.

If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.

Betting against entrepreneurs who are changing the world has never been a profitable endeavor.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

I love data. I think it's very important to get it right, and I think it's good to question it.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

The only reason to have a 300-foot-long boat is because they're bigger than 200-foot-long boats.

Something like bitcoin is really important because it is not correlated to the rest of the market.

There's a handful of exceptionally good companies, but there's always one company that's the best.

Your job as a smart investor is to separate the facts and the news from the fiction and the noise.

Good investors have to choose how to allocate their mind share with the precious capital they have.

One of the things I have known my entire life is that I have an innate capability for making money.

The strategy of Tumblr is very elegant.. The atomic unit of user experience is the same as the ads.

Facebook is not an unstoppable juggernaut. There are a lot of other things people can do on the web.

When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.

Venture capital is about capturing the value between the startup phase and the public company phase.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

I think the notion of retirement is just a dreadful, dreadful idea and I hope I never have to do that.

Diversity is America's most valuable resource. It is what makes us the most innovative nation on Earth.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I think overall it is better for businesses to stay private because you have more latitude, more freedom.

When people laugh at a company or say, 'This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard,' you are listening.

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