“You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.”

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

A manager can’t act like a role model. They need to BE a role model.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

You’re better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

It’s hard in daily life. It’s even harder in management because it’s the stress of the moment.

Here’s Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can’t even deal with him because he’s always saying something that people go, ‘Oh, I can’t believe Kanye said that. I can’t believe he did that.’

In Silicon Valley, when you’re a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time … He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

You don’t need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had.

My job description is that I’m a rock star. And I’m good at it.

Somebody asked me recently, ‘Have you done a lot of plays?’ I thought hang on. .

The best verse hasn’t been rhymed yet, The best house hasn’t been planned, The highest peak hasn’t been climbed yet, The mightiest rivers aren’t spanned.

It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Adam [Sandler] is a good basketball player, so he is a natural athlete, he worked with Sean Salisbury to make his footwork and delivery smooth, and he did a great job.

As one woman told me, “When I decided to come in to work happy, everybody around me became happy.” This woman had decided to quit a job she hated, and on the last day of her two weeks’ notice, she woke up happy.

The job is the same – to attempt to make it sound like you’ve never said it before and as if it’s just occurred to you. And that’s the same whether you’re on camera or whether you’re on stage in a room full of people.