Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Be unforgettable. The more memorable you make yourself to clients, the easier the sales process will be.

The night was ordinary. It usually is, I think, when your life changes. Most people aren't doing anything special when the carefully placed pieces of their life break apart.

Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.

Dad trusted people based on their spirit and their handshake.

Psy Free was a trio consisting of guitar, organ and drums. I was the drummer. We did what the name suggests: psychedelic, free music.

True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa.

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I’d rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time.

I am convinced of the necessity to take an effective measure of self defense.

The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night, Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

Verily God does not reward man for what he does, but for what he is.