Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work. If you're passionate about an idea that's stuck in your head, find a way to build it so you can prove to yourself that it doesn't work.

Foursquare makes maps special. We take maps that are blank and put dots on them to help you figure out what to do.

If there's something you want to build, but the tech isn't there yet, just find the closest possible way to make it happen.

Don't let people tell you your ideas won't work.

Stop sketching and start building.

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building.

People can copy what you've done, but they can't copy what you still want to do.

Build something that fixes something people are having a problem with, and you're lined up for great things.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

Building a product is easy. But building the company that builds the product is hard.

Stop sketching. Start building.

I just want to feel important to someone.

In the non-material scenario, both temple or total quality gets raised, deploying communication as mortar, culture as reinforcement, and commitment as concrete.

Imagine if you had access to data that allowed you to rank on a scale of overall happiness which people in your life made you the happiest. … Would you make more time for those people?

If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?

The greatest challenge of community life is to create synthesis, embracing diversity in a unified whole, resolving differences with the healing spirit of love and dedication to the good of the whole.

It is impossible to know who you are until you enter into Samadhi.

After the tsunami in Japan, we were open for business. In fact, I flew there 10 days after the tsunami to show our support for the Japanese people.

Love could never come to full fruition till it was destroyed.

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.