The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Darkness has its own beauty that you can only see with your inner light.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

People always say that pregnant women have a glow. And I say it's because you're sweating to death.

Mostly I'm telling people that they don't have to be victims

Every Naval vessel has a contingent of Marines aboard. After all, the Sailors have to have someone to dance with.

I had a marvelously happy childhood.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

Justice is the first virtue of social institutions.

Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man.

Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent.