Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

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.

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.

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.

Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.

Remember if people talk behind your back it only means you're two steps ahead!

The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit.

Sure, I'd like to be like the House of Chanel

In a criminal justice setting, it's very hard to create a therapeutic environment where people do feel safe, but the real important thing to do is to do your best to do that.

In England you're skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.

Doing interviews and touring are two ways that I can try to bring my music to people. It can be tiring, but it's better than working at Burger King.

The ultimate resource in economic development is people. It is people, not capital or raw materials that develop an economy.