I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

If you said to me, “I do not love, I have never loved, ” then you would sound incomplete. Equally, if you say “I do not hate, I have never hated, ” then you sound like half a man.

The point of criticism is to build you as a leader and a dimension to reflect.

She tried to focus on the element of riddle or at least puzzle contained in the letter and ignore the sense of doom that was sweeping through her like clouds rolling to the shore over open water.

A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.

As an artist, you can never get what you want. What you do never approaches what you want it to be.

I want the people I love to get up and speak about me, and even if you cry it'll be OK. I want you to say honest things.

He that serves God for Money, will serve the Devil for better Wages.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.