“That’s already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.”

Any time where the delta b/w what is possible and how things work today is at its widest, that’s an opportunity to go build new technology.

The only way to avoid disruption is to constantly do what you would if you were just starting out.

It’s unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

Uber is a $3.5 billion lesson in building for how the world *should* work instead of optimizing for how the world *does* work

Better to be right about the trend and wrong about the implementation, than the other way around.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can’t separate those two things.

There’s a lot of pride that business owners have. It’s actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.

All we’re really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago… it’s just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn’t have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

If people don’t think the odds are against you, you’re doing it wrong.

Read these 3 books – Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

If there could’ve ever been a magical time to build an enterprise software company, now is absolutely that time.

Innovation is hard because solving problems people didn’t know they had & building something no one needs look identical at first.

My dad is a chemical engineer, and my mom was a teacher. They were pretty serious about education, but I always thought about things a little bit differently.

Always look for these changing technology factors- any market that has a significant change in the underlying raw materials …or enabling factors, is an environment that is about to change in a very significant way.

Startups often win because it’s easier to see what comes next when you don’t have to worry about maintaining what came last.

In the enterprise you want to start intentionally small.

My first car was a motorcycle.

I didn’t lose my virginity until I was 18 The first time was a nightmare. Who shows you how to use a condom?

When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don’t make any money, then you change things.

The best of the people are the first to greet others.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.

In the first way he sees in what surrounds him things to be handled, forces to be managed, objects to be put to use.

To create is, first and foremost, to create time.

Being the first born gives you great patience.