[Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

If we focus on ourselves alone, we run our nation down.

After initial needs are met—enough food, shelter, comfort—there is no correlation between money and happiness. That's a difficult thing for people to believe.

I'll stick to building ships.

So people have been hurting, and I understand that, and it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me we'd be in a worldwide depression.

There will be birds and if they write your name in the sky then you can get on the buses and if they don't you have to die on the floor.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

I hear many people talk about their longing for a balanced life. What I think they are really expressing is a desire for a life with less pressure.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing.