The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design.

I'm personally a moderate and a registered independent, so I'm not strongly Democratic or strongly Republican.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

Focus on something that has high value to someone else, be really rigorous in making that assessment, because natural human tendency is wishful thinking, so the challenge to entrepreneurs is telling what's the difference between really believing in your ideals and sticking to them as opposed to pursuing some unrealistic dream that doesn't actually have merit, be very rigorous in your self analysis, certainly being extremely tenacious, and just work like hell. Put in 80-100 hours every week. All these things improves the odds of success

I think that's the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.