Marketing executives like big budgets, as big budgets make it easier to grow the top line.

You can't make money with a consensus accurate prediction.

Over the past 10 years, the majority of value creation in the venture community has been in consumer Internet.

No one's fearful, everyone's greedy, and it will eventually end.

There is no fear in Silicon Valley right now.

Venture capital is unscalable. Production equals the time each partner has.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

For every great success, diligence is desirable from the beginning to the very end.

Life is like a river in which you merge. When you struggle against the current, you suffer. When you flow with the current in a smooth and fluid experience, life becomes effortless and joyful.

Here is a dream-life: A life amongst the flowers!

The future is going to take care of itself, like it always has.

Truth lives in the spaces between words. It defies translation.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

I was one of two first cultural exchange artists been allowed to go to the West. I knew it was such a rare opportunity and I had to treasure it by giving my utter most to achieve excellence.

Let him be great, and love shall follow him.

The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

An artists is someone who does something for the first time, something human, something that touches another.