I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

To invent your own life's meaning is not easy, but it's still allowed, and I think you'll be happier for the trouble.

Leaders must see the dream in their mind before they will accomplish the dream with their team.

It's much easier to tame a wild idea than invigorate one that has no life in the first place.

The iron bolt...mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in a gloomy prison.

It's not what people do to you, but what they mean, that hurts.

Hurt tends to drown out sorry.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Poverty, the racial divide and social injustice do not impact only those who suffer most visibly. Alleviating poverty and injustice is a responsibility we must never forget or abandon.

We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people.

I wanted to make a concrete impression; the idea of a woman that is free, moody, never the object, one that has a complete control of her finances and knows how it is to be independent.