A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

There are times when our victories have a cost that we did not foresee, when winning brings us loss.

I mean, Emily Harris was his wife. And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness.

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others.

He who does not oppose evil......commands it to be done.

Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?

They grew fat and happy--the horses, not the children, or Marlena for that matter.

I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.

Wall Street makes its money on activity. You make your money on inactivity.