I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

Reading is the fountain of all knowledge.

I love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset - and sandals - of my forefathers.

...one Greek city state had a fundamental law: anyone proposing revisions to the constitution did so with a noose around his neck. If his proposal lost he was instantly hanged.

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.

There are your enemies, the Red Coats and the Tories. They are ours, or this night Molly Stark sleeps a widow!

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I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

The idea that maybe you don't have to own a car if you only need one occasionally may catch on, just like time-sharing caught on in real estate

Without free, self-respecting, and autonomous citizens there can be no free and independent nations.

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.