“Building a successful company (or living a happy life, for that matter) is not about embracing someone else’s philosophy, but staying true to your own beliefs about the world and learning from the mistakes you make along the way.”

There was more data transmitted over the Internet in 2010 than the entire history of the Internet through 2009.

Difficult situations require compassion, level-headedness & the empathy to see issues from somebody else’s perspective.

Starting a company is a cause, not a job. Once it becomes a job, that’s when you lose

I’m proud to call myself a Mashable alumnus.

More and more, the things we do in real life will end up as Facebook posts. And while we may be consoled by the fact that most of this stuff is being posted just to our friends, it only takes one friend to share that information with his or her friends to start a viral chain.

Relationships are the key element to Press & PR

The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.

Start with local press first. Start with people you know. Don’t pitch every journalist.

If you can’t build relationships from nothing, you will fail. You must have that drive.

The world’s most successful entrepreneurs play hard, but they work even harder.

Google is famous for making the tiniest changes to pixel locations based on the data it accrues through its tests. Google will always choose a spartan webpage that converts over a beautiful page that doesn’t have the data to back it up.

The more PR buzzwords you include in your press release, the less likely I am to write you up

Don’t let failure deter you; use it as a stepping-stone and an educational experience towards making your mark on the world.

Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.

Attention is the most important currency that anybody can give you. It’s worth more than money, possession, or things.

The entrepreneur profits to the extent he has succeeded in serving the consumers better than other people have done.

Being gritty doesn’t mean not showing pain or pretending everything is O.K. In fact, when you look at healthy and successful and giving people, they are extraordinarily meta-cognitive. They’re able to say things like, ‘Dude, I totally lost my temper this morning.’ That ability to reflect on yourself is signature to grit.

There are successful scholars, public-spirited scholars, upright scholars, cautious scholars, and those who are merely petty men.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

I’m speaking to you from Silicon Valley, where some of the most prominent and successful companies have built their businesses by lulling their customers into complacency about their personal information.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven’t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all.

Only one novel is a novel: that is a successful novel.

At home and abroad I have repeatedly been asked what are the main essentials of a successful prime minister.