Having a company that's successful is a wonderful platform to do new things. You don't have to raise money for it; you can take profits from the company and pump them into new business.

Focusing on one thing and doing it really, really well can get you very far.

If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going.

I promise you, a lot of it is luck. But you make your own luck by working really hard and trying lots and lots of things.

Above all else, products spread when they're useful and they're usable

I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.

Great products sell themselves.

Our goal is to not just be a photo-sharing app, but to be the way you share your life when you're on the go.

Every photo you take communicates something about a moment in time - a brief slice of time of where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing.

Every startup should address a real and demonstrated need in the world. If you build a solution to a problem lots of people have, it's so easy to sell your product to the world.

I really love connecting people, creating communities. As a kid, creation was something that I always loved.

Stop praying for salvation when it is clear, You are the saviours that we need around here.

As sure as time, history is repeating itself, and as sure as man is man, history is the last place he'll look for his lessons.

There is no commerce without community. And there is no community without commerce

Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.

Writing about joyful experiences for just three days can improve people's moods and decrease their visits to health centers a full three months later.

Democracy is no solution - it's just 51% bossing the other 49% around. For God's sake, Hitler was democratically elected! Democracy is just mob rule dressed up in a coat and tie.

How like they are to human things!

Tradition remains alive only when we struggle with it.

When God is at the center of your life, you Worship, when He's not, you Worry.

Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray.