The idea of becoming an entrepreneur is something that is not taught very well in school and is something that people should try to do earlier on.

Every university…seem[s] to reassure you that ‘it doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you do it well.’ That is completely false. It does matter what you do. You should focus relentlessly at something you’re good at doing, but before that you must think hard about whether it will be valuable in the future.

Every business is successful exactly to the extent that it does something others cannot.

When you are starting a new business you don't want to go after giant markets. You want to go after small markets and take over those markets quickly.

I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases.

If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

There's been a lot companies that have shown "zero to one" kind of growth in the computer, internet software age. Facebook and Google are zero to one companies. Apple's iPhone was the first smartphone that really works, and of course, then you scale it horizontally, but the vertical component was really critical. Space X would also be one.