You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

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

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.'

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.