You actually don't want people thinking your product is cool, because then you're a fad.

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.

My world was the size of a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw her

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

Best while you have it use your breath, There is no drinking after death.

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

I've always been interested in archaeology, I guess ever since junior high or high school.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.

I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.

I don't really put too much emphasis on what somebody else might think of it. Otherwise your putting limits on yourself.

I cannot even imagine college. I'm white-knuckling it just letting my son go to kindergarten for eight hours a day.