Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

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.

Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route destruction!

I still wake with your name on my lips every morning.

Man's poverty is abysmal, his wants are endless till he becomes truly conscious of his soul. Till then, the world to him is in a state of flux - a phantasm that is and is not.

The irony is that I'm actually a very empathetic person, but I don't believe in sympathy at all.

The noblest people are those despising wealth, learning, pleasure and life; esteeming above them poverty, ignorance, hardship and death.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

The little ones leaped, and shouted, and laugh'd And all the hills echoed