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

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

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.

There is no greater duty in this world than to serve others with deep compassion and love.

You do not see the river of mourning because it lacks one tear of your own.

We are not in prison so we are free and happy? No. We're in a different kind of prison in this life. We have to confront it, and we have to liberate Istanbul and ourselves, as well.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.

When I made 'Sleepwalk with Me,' many people asked me if was a novelty thing, a one-off. But this is the goal, I'm just hitting it 12 years after I thought I would.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

If it ever seems to us that the world is a place where bad things only happen to good people, it is because we still believe that bad things happening to bad people is a good thing.

Coaching will become the model for leaders in the future... I am certain that leadership can be learned and that terrific coaches... facilitate learning.