Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.

Thinking is mind over matter.

It was great. I mean, it's a blast directing underwater stuff.

My rejection of the idea of entertainment in its current form is based on the audience that comes with it.

I am after painting reality impressed on the mind so hard that it returns as a dream, but I am not after painting dreams as such, or fantasy.

Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Index investing outperforms active management year after year.

There was never a finer character - charitable and friendly to his foes and ever willing to help a youngster breaking in.

They say the good die young, so the bad die old. Guess we somewhere in the middle, so just pray for my soul.

Yours is... il sent comme lavande." Is that French for 'You stink'?" It means 'lavender'." Huh." She sniffed at her wrist. "I thought I smelled more like a grape Popsicle.

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.