There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

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

What do you get when you cross a herd of sheep with a herd of lemmings? A herd of venture capitalists.

A CEO needs great intelligence and great courage. And I always found my courage was tested more.

There are no silver bullets.