We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

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.

There are only two things you’ll ever need to know about me, Farin—and you should know them well. I’m very smart, and I’m very rich.

The hearts that never lean must fall.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Don't send a man to the grocery store.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

But I think the more you eat healthy clean foods the more you create them.

I was stationed at a Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from 1965 to 1967.