“Solve a real problem. You don’t start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.”

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they’re going to steal it.

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

It’s okay to doubt yourself, it’s okay to feel down; just never give up.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance – in the real world and online.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

I think fundamentally, the real power behind the anti-choice movement in regard to abortion and the opposition to the rights of LGBT Americans is fundamentally religious.

There was one moment when J. Edgar Hoover and us had the same distorted lens about who we were – “a real threat,” you know? He thought so and we thought so and we were buddies in that regard.

I think if actors don’t think of themselves as funny in real life they think they can’t do comedy.

I don’t need an overpowering, powerful, rich man to feel secure. I’d much rather have a man who is there for me, who really loves me, who is growing, who is real.

I think confronted with the modern world or with the rest of the world, I think people are becoming aware that the Western and Islamic civilizations have more in common than apart.

Real success is being totally indulgent about your own trip. You put your blinders on about the garbage and go full speed ahead.

One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between the sound of his voice on the screen and in real life.

The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don’t like real numbers.