“If there are too many competitors, even if you’re the best it’s a lot harder to win.”

I think the most important thing is just if you hire people whose personal values match the corporate core values – and not just the stated ones.

Twitter is like hugging. Just because it’s hard to measure the return on investment doesn’t mean there isn’t value there.

It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

Get the culture right, and everything else just falls into place.

Help inspire people to realize they are capable of changing the world.

Every employee can affect your company’s brand, not just the front-line employees that are paid to talk to your customers.

Have fun. The game is a lot more enjoyable when you’re trying to do more than just make money.

Without conscious and deliberate effort, inertia always wins.

I think everyone should get a little exposure to computer science because it really forces you to think in a slightly different way, and it’s a skill that you can apply in life in general, whether you end up in computer science or not.

What’s the best way to build a brand for the long term? In a word: culture.

Your brand is your culture.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

For me, my role is about unleashing what people already have inside them that is maybe suppressed in most work environments.

Business is all about learning to balance the short-term, medium-term and long-term and I think it’s when things are going well it covers up a lot of mistakes and bad decisions because you’re growing so quickly.

If someone is self-aware, then they can always continue to grow. If they’re not self-aware, I think it’s harder for them to evolve or adapt beyond who they already are.

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.

Treat the ones you love most the very best.

In my view, Zhang Lanxin is one of our best female martial artists, and I can’t rate her highly enough.

It is not the man that can preach the best that is the most successful, but the man who knows how to get his people together to pray.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

Don’t bother finding a soulmate. Your aunt tells you, your fluffy scrambled eggs are the best she’s had and dammit, you can enjoy those all by yourself. No need to share the wealth.

The best businesses are really ones that can combine passion, profits, and purpose.