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

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.

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.

Your culture is your brand.

There was only really one accident that was kinda bad but it was nothing to do with booze, just bad luck…

You really have to work hard and diligently. Sometimes actors can be lazy and get away with it, but you can’t do that if you’re a musician.

Joel, lad, school is about learning to learn. If you don’t practice studying things you don’t like, then you’ll have a very hard time in life.

You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life.

My work is always very geometric.

You can’t make a racehorse out of a pig. But if you work hard enough at it you can make a mighty fast pig.

The difference between possible and impossible is hard work and commitment.