I got to sit down with people who I admired, and have conversations with some of the greatest thinkers and artists and performers. It's a huge privilege for me to be a journalist.

Rock stars are incredibly energizing to me.

You lie awake at 3 in the morning thinking of story ideas. You're online at 8 a.m. on a Sunday or midnight on a Wednesday. It's a job that you never push aside.

You can't be distracted by the noise of misinformation.

It's very rare that publications double their frequency.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

The stock market can be down, but the stock market is not an indication of where people's spirits and enthusiam are, and where their intellectual energy is.

You can't suppress creativity, you can't suppress innovation.

The collective energy of everyone is what really made Business 2.0 exciting.

The best rock musicians are the most exciting people in the world.

I still believe that the mission of Business 2.0 is very strong, very fundamental, and we're really at the beginning of where they're going to take us.

Leadership is fundamentally about credibility.

I think I'm a big romantic, so being part of those stories, that’s such a big part of anyone’s life in general, that’s such a humane thing.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

I thought, better to get out while I'm still alive.

Let cheerfulness on happy fortune wait.

Its easy to lose sight of what you want when you think you want everything.

No great saint lived without errors.

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.