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.

In the most dysfunctional organizations, signaling that work is being done becomes a better strategy for career advancement than actually doing work (if this describes your company, you should quit now).

We need more pessimism that the future might be a lot worse, and we need more optimism that the future might be better.

Had the people who started Facebook decided to stay at Harvard, they would not have been able to build the company, and by the time they graduated in 2006, that window probably would have come and gone.

The business model piece is we're always talking about competing more effectively. If you're starting a company or career you don't want to compete. You want to create a monopoly. We want to invest in a company that has a good plan to create a monopoly.

Recruiting is a core competency for any company. It should never be outsourced.

Long-term planning is often undervalued by our indefinite short-term world.