Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.

Our idea with starting Stripe was to build better payments technology for people building things on the web.

Stripe really did come about because we were really appalled by how hard it was to charge for things online.

I think a lot of people learn to code messing around with things while in secondary school. And for me, it started up as a hobby and a plaything, and I just became more curious over time.

My brother and I were born in an Irish county called Tipperary. We were both very math- and science-inclined in high school. My dad trained as an electrical engineer, and my mom is in microbiology.

With Stripe, people who previously operated online or offline in a very limited capacity now have all the tools to work like a real online business. That's a very valuable thing.

Success, like happiness, is a by-product, not a goal.

Some girls are bigger than others.

Gratitude can transform any situation. It alters your vibration moving you from negative energy to positive

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

My mother told me I was begging her to be an actor when I was four. My father and my grandfather saw at least one or two movies a week; they were film buffs, so I guess it just rubbed off on me.

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.

Selfishness, not love, is the actuating motive of the gallant.

A bird in a cage is safe but God didn't create birds for that.

There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along them the wrong way.