The one thing we learned over 5 years is that nothing works better than just improving your product.

Investors, most of them, have a herd mentality. They want to invest only if other people are investing

Lots of people were skeptical, but that's always true when you do something that hasn't been done before.

You've got to say you are a step ahead of where you actually are to move to the step that you want to be at.

Starting a startup is a process of trial and error. What guided the founders through this process was their empathy for the users. They never lost sight of making things that people would want.

Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle.

The media often glamorizes successful founders and makes their paths seem easier than they actually were.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

People like the idea of innovation in the abstract, but when you present them with any specific innovation, they tend to reject it because it doesn't fit with what they already know.

Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

Oh, pity the poor gluttonWhose troubles all beginIn struggling on and on to turnWhat's out into what's in.

Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.

I actually love pressure. I loved playing sport at school in front of a crowd; I love being on stage in front of a big audience. I buzz off that.

Inexperience is what makes a young man do what an older man says is impossible.

To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

I grew up as a Roman Catholic, and as a very young boy I felt the presence of divinity in my life through the experiences that I had in connection with the Catholic church.

When you step away from doing something that you have always been doing and then you return to it, you have a different perspective. You get that desire and the will to strike at everything.

My breakfast is very important.