The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

Note to self: It’s a good idea to ask, “What am I not doing?

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

It's quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating