Everyone told me you can't build a major tech company in Canada. There just aren't enough investors or engineers or top-level managers. Each day, I'm driven to prove them wrong.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

For everybody in their busy lives, you need to invest in sharpening your tools, and you need to invest in longevity.

You can run a sprint or your can run a marathon, but you can't sprint a marathon.

What drives me is the prospect of turning an obstacle into a business opportunity, and then growing that into something lasting and rewarding.

Email is familiar. It's comfortable. It's easy to use. But it might just be the biggest killer of time and productivity in the office today.

Social media is the future, with employers recognizing they need to start hiring people with the right skills.

I'm motivated by solving new and challenging problems, especially ones that people say can't or shouldn't be tackled.

Not using social media in the workplace, in fact, is starting to make about as much sense as not using the phone or email.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

HootSuite never had a big launch. We were lucky to even have office space.

Get off the treadmill of consumption, replication, and mediocrity. Begin lifting the weights of creativity, originality, and success.

Man who is at the edge of a precipice has always a better chance to understand the universe than a man who is far away from that precipice!

I've always just wanted to sing in a rock band.

In addition to writing in received forms, I have also had fun making up forms - Möbius strips and visual poems, particularly.

...the relationship is here to make you conscious instead of happy.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Do you even know who the enemy is?" "I think... it's me".