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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I think of myself as just another consumer.

Troubles teaches us what we fail to learn.

People have the power we give them. Words have the power we give them.

Freedom is not doing what we want, but what we should.

Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?

... When Princes devote themselves rather to pleasure than to arms, they lose their dominions.

We must be doing something to be happy.

I'm not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.

We should daily feel a deeper union with Life, a greater sense of that Indwelling God - the God of the seen and of the unseen - within us.

It's ok if others share our ideas as long as they build upon them. It's called progress.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.