Sometimes things are the way they are and can't be changed, other times it's because no one ever tried. Your job is to find the latter.

A lot of being productive personally is determined by how you organize your entire business. You can't separate those two things.

I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

All we're really doing is repeating technologies that were tried 10, 20, 30 years ago... it's just that it was too expensive, too unusable, and we didn't have the enabling technologies to make it possible.

Start with the assumption that the best way to do something is not the way it's being done right now.

We're going from a world of customized software to standardized platforms.