My downtime tends to resemble my uptime. Weekends are workdays, but toned down. Over the whole weekend, I may have five meetings, as opposed to six on a weekday. I used to play piano for 30 minutes at night, but I had to pull that out of my schedule. I don't have time for nonwork stuff.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

All of a sudden, if you think about the entire ecosystem of connected devices that can pull down information, access content and allow me to share and work and communicate, the vast majority now are not Windows computers. They are iPhones. They are iPads. They are Android devices.

Tip: Take the stodgiest, oldest, slowest moving industry you can find. And build amazing software for it.

There's a lot of pride that business owners have. It's actually really critical that pride and ownership extends to everyone in the organization. I think of everyone is in the same boat in driving the company forward.