You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

It's important to choose initial investors who are not twitchy and rushing for an exit. Wall Street's quarter-by-quarter lens may make the CEO make sub-optimal long-term decisions.

I try getting in front of as many opportunities as possible, but in the late '90s, I had no idea that I'd end up being CFO of a technology company. I'd no idea what venture capital was.

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.

Founders should think of their company as a product and build it and shape it with the same passion and care.

Money was invented for a reason. We've seen people try to use beans, etc. and it doesn't work.

I am sure innovation will blossom around the world, given that the Internet and mobile platforms enable innovators anywhere in the world to reach a global market with ease.

Israel has incredible entrepreneurial spirit and a deep bench of technology talent.

I think of myself as just another consumer.

Besides, your a cat.Its your nature to think your the center of the univ

Nature like man sometimes weeps for gladness.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

I didn't always know I wanted to do music, I got more into music in high school. I always sort of liked the idea of psychology so I thought of being a therapist or someone who helps other people.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

I don't have time to worry about looking cool.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

I am blind -- but I am able to read thanks to a wonderful new system known as 'broil' . . . I'm sorry, I'll just feel that again.

Failure is not having the courage to try, nothing more and nothing less.

God damn! Drug dealers dealin' to the kiddies, Livin' in the city ain't no pity on the itty-bitty. We try to cry, but still they all die, I try to speak to the youth, and the truth is: they all high.