“If you’re focused on the friendship as its own reward, serendipitous stuff just happens. I know that sounds weird, but I can tell you for our 12 years of existence, it’s actually how a lot of stuff happens.”

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.

Your culture is your brand.

SEO expertise is a core need for today’s online businesses.

A bigger business is like a cruise ship: There are lots of amenities and you can go a lot further, but it’s harder to turn quickly.

What’s really funny about being National Youth Poet Laureate is that not everyone even knows it exists.

I cannot conceive curved lines of force without the conditions of a physical existence in that intermediate space.

Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

A photograph acquires something of the dignity which it ordinarily lacks when it ceases to be a reproduction of reality and shows us things that no longer exist.

It is a curious situation that the sea, from which life first arose, should now be threatened by the activities of one form of that life. But the sea, though changed in a sinister way, will continue to exist: the threat is rather to life itself.