Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

ONE WORDOne word— one stonein a cold river.One more stone—I'll need many stonesif I'm going to get over.

If you do not work for your dream or purpose, someone else will hire you to fulfill his/hers

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

If one examines his life sincerely, one will understand whether he is truly living in ‘The Light’.

Boldness be my friend.

Once we are truly for ourselves, it becomes possible to care far more profoundly about other people.

The stream in my hometown Calgary is the oil and gas industry - that's the talk you hear on the street.

I can sleep anywhere. I can fall asleep standing up, literally anywhere.

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

I do understand that going out and promoting the movie is a big responsibility, and part of the reason they give me the job in the first place.