You generally know when someone asks you to do something- am I more writing, or am I more editing? The editor is the best metaphor for your job.

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.

The society terms the varied paths of achieving the divine bliss as religion.

I did not break up the Beatles. You can't have it both ways. If you're going to blame me for breaking the Beatles up, you should be thankful that I made them into myth rather than a crumbling group.

I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.

I might lose because I wasn't tall enough; I might lose because I wasn't fast enough. But I wasn't going to lose because I wasn't ready.

There are no limits, you are only limited by however far you want to be limited

You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos

i want to look at all my tears, she said. which made me shiver

The American public has become so conditioned by crises, by warnings, by words, that there are few, other than the young, who protest against what is happening.

I think dieting is bad for you.

The difference between a beautifully made failure and a beautifully made hit is who you've got playing the leads.