Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Assume the best but hire paranoid people.

Marketing, when done well, is about story telling.

The vast majority of things are distractions, and very few really matter to your success.

News in general doesn't matter most of the time, and most people would be far better off if they spent their time consuming less news and more ideas that have more lasting import.

After high school, I enrolled at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, but I stayed only a year and a half. I felt college was a waste of time; I wanted to start working.

If one were to just understand the worldly life and what it is, he would attain liberation [moksha]. The worldly life is ‘relative’. And “All these relatives are temporary adjustments”.

The ones who are insane enough to think that they can rule the world are always the ones who do.

Our memories and events in our lives are untidy things. We wish that we can file them away and shut the door, or wish the opposite - that they would stay forever.

Well, fame is a drug and when you take it away from an addict, things can get ugly.

The struggle I went through has value.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

We had a rule in the school that when you're punished, you carry out the punishment and then complain, which I felt was absolutely unfair: if I'd done it, what was the point of complaining?

Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs.

Americans still believe they are cut out to be successful-in everything: love, love-making, luck, luck-giving, money-making, sense-making, cancer-avoiding, clothes-wearing, car-driving, and so on.