Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

Pushed into darkness, the only way out wasto seek light with thetorch of hope and faithburning in my heart

The finest fury is the most controlled.

How wrong and petty any life is.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.

If it requires great tact to speak to the purpose, it requires no less to know when to be silent.

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

See, this was why I liked coffee. You couldn’t screw up making coffee. Even the bad stuff was good.

I had just come to accept that my life would be ordinary when extraordinary things began to happen.

I think acting can be very frustrating, and there's no experience that doesn't make you a better actor. So people may choose to explore their other talents.