Moving first is a tactic, not a goal.

There are many more secrets in the world that are waiting to be found. The question of how many secrets exist in our world is roughly equivalent to how many startups people should start.

If you have technological progress, that will encourage more capitalist system. On the other hand, if you don't, if things are stalled, you end up with much more of a zero sum type thing, where there's no progress and basically everybody's gain is somebody else's loss.

The road doesn’t have to be infinite after all. Take the hidden paths.

The most successful businesses have an idea for the future that's very different from the present.

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.

The biggest secret in venture capital is that the best investment in a successful fund equals or outperforms the entire rest of the fund combined.