If you want to unleash more creativity in your company, you need to allow for a little contamination. It is the sand in the oyster that creates the pearl.

If you have an idea that you can't get out of your head, do a startup. Otherwise join a startup.

Ideas that most people derided as ridiculous have produced the best outcomes. Don't do the obvious thing.

I generally blog between 5:30 A.M. and 7 A.M. I will from time to time add something during the day, but for the most part blogging is an early morning activity for me.

Early in a startup, product decisions should be hunch driven. Later on, product decisions should be data driven.

The companies that do the best job on managing a user's privacy will be the companies that ultimately are the most successful.

Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.

Markets come and go. Good business don't.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

Investing in management means building communication systems, business processes, feedback, and routines that let you scale the business and team as efficiently as possible.

I think 'crazy' is a compliment. I think you make money with people who are crazy.

We need to perceive ourselves as the special race.If not, beasts will perceive themselves as the chosen.

Achievement comes from within. If you don’t feel it, it won’t make any difference what anyone else thinks.

When I was 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, I had so many people I looked up to and was so inspired by all these different people. It's cool to be in that position.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

The prophet and the martyr do not see the hooting throng. Their eyes are fixed on the eternities.

We're called Shadowhunters. At least, that's what we call ourselves. The Downworlders have less complimentary names for us.

I want to be enriched by the music I listen to. That's the reason it never really exists in the mainstream. Because that's not what most people are after.

The principles always work if you work the principles.

I just thought that I was going to get to sing for a living and I wouldn't have to go to work in the department store or whatever else you did if you were a woman in those days.