Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

A complicated life can only be the outcome of a mind that's polluted with negative beliefs.

Don't make your character that people can walk on it, make your character as sky so that people would dream to get there

The '90s were indeed a great time to be alive. There was a sense of optimism that I never felt before that decade and I haven't felt since.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

As you walk the road of life, be careful of your friends. They can make you or break you.

Before passage of this [Federal Reserve] Act, the New York Bankers could only dominate the reserves of New York. Now, we are able to dominate the bank reserves of the entire country.

No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.

The mind can store an estimated ioo trillion bits of information compared with which a computer's mere billions are virtually amnesiac.

Maybe one day we shall be glad to remember even these hardships.