It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Little startups are ridiculously overfunded.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

It's during a storm that the best songs get written.

You have to see the human being in the enemy. If there is potential for change, there is still hope.

The practice of charity will bind us - will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

The ultimate sophistication of subversion is to take over the government, not by unlawful but by lawful means.

The job of the writer is to look at where he is now and make some sort of emotional sense of it, not only for that moment but for years to come.

I don't write a book so that it will be the final word; I write a book so that other books are possible, not necessarily written by me.

Motivation is a battle for the heart, not just an appeal to the mind. Passion is always an expression of the soul.

But who can speak to God, or rather who can't? The question is, who can get an answer?