“Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.”

Get away from the place that makes you feel comfortable with your depression. The reality is it’s never as bad as the insanity you’ve created in your head.

The Internet’s a big enough place for everybody to be happy.

The worst thing in the world is to be bland.

We tell ourselves we’re here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.

I’m always throwing out ideas, so it’s not creativity, it’s just volume.

The fact of the matter is that the Internet has brought together millions of people who trust one another for reasons that are unknown.

The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.

You need to put the fear of risk aside. Startups need leaders who are willing to persevere through the hard times. Failure is an option, and a real risk.

Only those who live forever can act like there’s time to waste.

Failure and risk are something entrepreneurs should understand well, and learn to manage. Don’t have a fear of talking about your failures. Don’t hide your mistakes.

As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

Market like the year you are in.

Markets are constantly in a state of uncertainty and flux and money is made by discounting the obvious and betting on the unexpected.

The best marketing strategy ever: CARE

Bull markets go to people’s heads. If you’re a duck on a pond, and it’s rising due to a downpour, you start going up in the world. But you think it’s you, not the pond.

Markets can influence the events that they anticipate.