Mainly, my job is to be on the outside and bring ideas into the company and forge change. Most people hate change—it’s threatening. I thrive on it.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top

Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

The whole purpose of an adventure is to gain some spiritual or emotional insight. When you compromise the process, you compromise the gain.

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

To do good, you actually have to do something.

If you want to understand the entrepreneur, study the juvenile delinquent. The delinquent is saying with his actions, ‘This sucks, I’m going to do my own thing.’

We're a part of nature. As we destroy nature, we destroy ourselves. It's a selfish thing to want to protect nature.

Mastery... is to work toward simplicity; replace complex technology with knowledge, hard work, and skill.

What is the world’s problem? The world is still believing the old childish stories! That is the problem! Grow up, world, grow up! Be a bit serious!

Love the people who love you back.

The older I get the less I listen to what people say and the more I look at what they do.

I did all the stupid things you'd expect from a 21-year-old kid with money.

Xenophobia doesn't benefit anybody unless you're playing high-stakes Scrabble.

I read Michael Caine's biography. It was about him growing up

Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement.

You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.

You're encouraged to pitch your own story. That way, you'll have more control over what you do.

Technology and tools are useful and powerful when they are your servant and not your master.