“If you’re waiting for encouragement from others, you’re doing it wrong. By the time people think an idea is good, it’s probably too late.”

Go after the customers that are working in the future, but haven’t totally lost their minds.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won’t get tomorrow’s customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won’t get today’s.

We’re enamored with the concept that there’s always a price. But sometimes, your goal is to build a great company, not sell it.

Execute like there’s no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Look for new enabling technologies that create a wide gap between how things have been done and how they can be done.

Every single industry is going through a major business model and technology oriented disruption.

Innovation in tech favors the naive and the stubborn. If you are too rational you won’t tackle problems that others once failed at.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

I’m certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Sometimes things are the way they are and can’t be changed, other times it’s because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

Do things that incumbents can’t or won’t do because it’s economically or technically infeasible.

If every customer is using your product “correctly”, you’ll never learn anything interesting about what to do next.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

When you’re doing something you’re passionate about, stress becomes a featurenot a bug.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.

The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas – fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.

I subscribe to the idea that personality is like a muscle.

Like the idea that every night might be the night before the world ends.

Men die but an idea does not.

You start reverting back to that state of mind where you’re having conversations with yourself, and that’s where the weirdest and most honest ideas come from.

I can’t pretend that I don’t subscribe to Internet music culture in that I discover new music and old music simultaneously.