My goal is not to fail fast. My goal is to succeed over the long run. They are not the same thing.

We have never lived in a time with the opportunity to put a computer in the pocket of 5 billion people.

No one should expect building a new high-growth, software-powered company in an established industry to be easy. It's brutally difficult.

There's no such thing as the middle class. It's absolutely vanishing.

Only two people have been on the cover of Time Magazine in bare feet. I'm one, the other is Gandhi.

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad technological and economic shift in which software companies are poised to take over large swathes of the economy