I try to keep the meetings small, especially when we're doing product design.

Surround yourself with people who do what you want to do, and eventually you’ll wake up to find yourself doing the same.

You need to just get started. If you never get started, you'll never be successful.

My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.

I try to work the hardest I can without burning myself out.

My entire career has been pivoting from company to company. Some people call it lack of planning or direction, I call it flexibility and good improvisational skills.

I find it hard to manage somebody's work unless I have an intimate knowledge of how to do it myself.

Start-ups don't die, they commit suicide.

Remember, everything you are building today will be killed or iterated. The former is more likely than the latter. Great products are created by many incremental improvements.

Many many external circumstances are outside of your control, but will affect the outcome, and you have to be OK with that.

It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve and bad things are very easy to get.

I am only alive because I have not yet died.

Never dwell in resentment, but never forget to learn from the reflection.

Seventy years after China emerged from the Second World War, the greatest threat facing the nation's leadership is not imperialism but skepticism.

If I am to be shot at, I want no man to be in the way of the bullet.

I decided during my teens that I wasn't going to have the life of a concert pianist, much to the chagrin of a lot of people who had put a lot of money into me!

Here in Seattle, I'm the most productive I've ever been. I don't allow myself personal distractions. I'm extremely disciplined here.

When you see a married couple walking down the street, the one that's a few steps ahead is the one that's mad.

Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?

There is no place in Ohio where you couldn't have drugs delivered to you in 15, 20 minutes.