What you actually want to do with every single employee, every single day is expand the scope of their responsibilities until it breaks.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

What you humans need to do is find beauty in the fact that something is naturally the way it is. Perhaps then you wouldn't be so destructive." [Meems says to Ellani]

I like life. It's something to do. Somewhere on this globe every 10 seconds there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.

I don't like travelling if I know I have to write about it.

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

In time, you'll see a thin line between friend and rival. Between you and me: stupidity and men's bravado.

Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.

Don't ever look down, be comfortable with who you are, our flaws are what makes us perfect.

Tea Party people know that I stood against the Wall Street scam from Day One, that I voted against TARP, that I voted against repealing Glass-Steagall Act that kept these guys under some control.

I love to challenge myself.

The self is not the individual body or mind, but rather that aspect deep inside each individual person that knows the truth.