There is perhaps no specific time that is necessarily right to start your company or start your life. But some times and some moments seem more auspicious than others. Now is such a moment. If we don’t take charge and usher in the future - if you don’t take charge of your life - there is the sense that no one else will.

Darwinism may be a fine theory in other contexts, but in startups, intelligent design works best.

Education needs to be rethought. Education does not just happen in college, but it also happens in developing skills which will enable people to contribute to our society as a whole.

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.

We cannot take for granted that the future will be better, and that means we need to work to create it today.

Value investors look at cash flows. If a company can maintain present cash flows for 5 or 6 years, it’s a good investment. Investors then just hope that those cash flows - and thus the company’s value - don’t decrease faster than they anticipate.

Higher education holds itself out as a kind of universal church, outside of which there is no salvation.