PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is -Am I doing what I'm good at?

You can have successful teams where people hate but deeply respect each other; the opposite (love but not respect among team members) is a recipe for disaster.

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on time-wasting arguments.

The world is now awash in data and we can see consumers in a lot clearer ways.

We're all put on Earth for a limited amount of time. Am I using in a way that is great, or good enough, or wasteful?

The notion that diversity in an early team is important or good is completely wrong. You should try to make the early team as non-diverse as possible.

Being an entrepreneur is not about being in love with an idea, it's about being in love with running a company.

You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.

Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.

Wanting him to come back before anyone notices part of the world has not moved since he left.

Wherever you go, never forget to be the messenger and cause of happiness.

Last month, I didn't even have the prospect of a relationship. Now I've got one cowboy too many, " she said.

He seemed not to know the uses of silence.

Hope is the faith of miracles.

Change your introduction so that you can change the outcome. Engage clients or they'll be thinking divorce.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

Believe in dreams. Never believe in hurts... You can't let the grief and the hurts and the breaking experiences of life control your future decisions.

My family comes first, and you have to be in charge to be able to protect that. You have to be the one who says no or you don't have a life, which is what I found out the first time.