Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

The society that embraced him continued to prosper by stressing the family unit and their close-knit community. Hers prospered by forcigng independence and self-sufficiency.

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have as upon how much you can do without.

I just wanted to let you know that I feel very lucky to have you in my life.

If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would not be the general's fault. It would be mine.

She doesn’t think she’s worthy to live. But she doesn’t realize, she is life.

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctified by its justice, and sustained by a virtuous people .

... people get confidential at midnight.

I was never tomboyish. I loved Barbies. It's just the way I grew up.