What comes after the revolution is inevitably bureaucracy. Whoever wins the revolution builds a bureaucracy

Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.

You have got to be willing to be poor as an entrepreneur.

It seems like the right thing to do is tackle problems other people aren't working on.

The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

I definitely wanted to earn my freedom. But the primary motivation wasn't making money, but making an impact.

Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those

A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.

Look: There's good creepy and there's bad creepy. Today's creepy is tomorrow's necessity.

Spotify is returning a huge amount of money. We'll overtake iTunes in terms of what we bring to the record industry in under two years.

You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.

Once a wolf, always a wolf.

People can't listen until they're ready. I sure couldn't. I was, like, deaf to everyone except the thoughts. They were the boss of me.

If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.

You forget why you're fighting - you can lose sight of why you're doing it all.

What is the life of a man more than the life of a lamb, or any guiltless animal?

Earlier this year I had my hair feng-shuied.

The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive.

People are going to talk about you. But maybe you're having more fun than them anyway.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

And if I have a strong point, it's that I like to believe it's not cheap or schmaltzy sentimentality.