You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Don't lose sight of user delight.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.

Wait. Are you about to do something really stupid? -GUARD

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

Unforeseen surprises are the rule in science, not the exception. Remember: Stuff happens.

So in my junior year, I switched to the drama department.

We represent our constituents. And so they don't get to dictate policy.

Sometimes, you just have to go in there and bowl people over with your sheer force of will.

The need for innovation – the lifeblood of business – is widely recognized, and imagination and play are key ingredients for making it happen.

I don't feel, 'I've made a great film'; I feel I've made what I set out to make.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

If I feel like I'm writing from an agenda, that's when I throw something away. If I have a strategy I feel like I'm doing it for the wrong reasons.