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

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.

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

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur… Eventually

A man who listens because he has nothing to say can hardly be a source of inspiration. The only listening that counts is that of the talker who alternately absorbs and expresses ideas.

Inspiration is there all the time. For everyone whose mind is not clouded over with thoughts whether they realize it or not.

There is the falsely mystical view of art that assumes a kind of supernatural inspiration, a possession by universal forces unrelated to questions of power and privilege or the artist’s relation to bread and blood. In this view.

And if the years vanish in their course, they are still only successions of days that pass right through us as we pass through them in order to seek constantly what You have to show us.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

Angelina Jolie is my style inspiration.

May you find INSPIRATION in the big picture, but may you find LOVE in the details.

When you get on the boat that’s saving you, don’t pull up the ladder behind you