If the Martians took over eBay it would take 6 months for the world to notice.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

Oh, I wouldn't mind, Hazel Grace. It would be a privilege to have my heart broken by you.

I am a melancholy type of person.

Desire something and don't just care what you have to go through to get it.

I don't wear diamond necklaces. I'm not against it but I never could afford it, so now I just wear gold. I wear bracelets, rings, anklets.

Always remember this: There are only eighteen inches between a pat on the back and a kick in the rump.

Drawing is of the Spirit and color of the Senses.

The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upward and leads to a perfect forgiveness.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

Hidden behind the facade of pompous jargon and noble affections, there is more sheer larceny per square foot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange than any place else in the world.

Don't drink the water and don't breathe the air!