You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be possible.

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.