No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Learn to read and a whole new world will open up to you.

The great risk of living is that we might not survive it.

What a nation needs more than anything else is not a Christian ruler in the palace but a Christian prophet within earshot.

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.

You can't save souls in an empty church.

I was gung-ho, no question about that.

Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war.

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them.

In fashion as in life, the right thing at the right time is the right thing. The right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.