I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Set off on a quest to find someone who has read a book or many books and remains the same, and I can tell you with all certainty there is no one you will see.

Life is a vacation to enjoy the beauty of life.

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of that.

Maybe I don't see enough television, but it seems there aren't many shows that are romantic comedies that are an hour long where you're not solving a crime or being a doctor.

If it's the lack of forbidden you're worried about. You could still forbid me to do things." "What kind of things?" She felt him smile against her mouth. "Things like this.

College is great. It's the only time in life where you can write a check for 39 cents... and bounce it.

The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.

In the highest civilization the book is still the highest delight.

No score in the other game betwen top club and bottom club, Switzerland and Georgia.

The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.