Everybody has a product to sell—no matter whether you’re an employee, a founder, or an investor. It’s true even if your company consists of just you and your computer. Look around. If you don’t see any salespeople, you’re the salesperson.

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.

We might describe our world as having retail sanity, but wholesale madness.

You want to be the last company in a category. Those are the ones that are really valuable.

The value of failure is greatly over-rated. It's a preposterous myth.

Probably the most extreme form of inequality is between people who are alive and people who are dead.

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.