Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.
The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it’s really all about the people.
The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.
The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.
By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.
When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.
People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don’t.
A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.
Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.
You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn’t get found. It emerges.
One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.
What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions.
Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.
Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.
One thing I learned in ’97, when I thought the right time to found a company was during a swing-up, is that it’s much better to start during an economic downturn. Partnerships are easier; hiring is easier; and the competition starts later.
Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.
You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.
Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you – as entrepreneurs do.
Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.