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.

In a world where wealth is growing, you can get away with printing money. Doubling the debt over the next 20 years is not a problem.

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.

If you think about basic science or coming up with new theories of mathematics, these are not the kinds of things which are necessarily a well-defined market to pay people.

I do tend to think that things that have incredibly long time horizons often do involve market failures.

Whatever the career, sales ability distinguishes superstars from also-rans.

What important truth do very few people agree with you on?