I pay about a third in taxes, I give away about a third, and I follow the law.

Over time, it also became important for me to share my management principles with the people I worked with because we had to agree on how we should be with each other - and that way is unique. Because the logic behind being radically honest and radically transparent with each other wasn't clear, it had to be spelled out in these principles.

It's more important to do big things well than to do small things perfectly.

For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won't grow.

Watch out for people who think it's embarrassing not to know.

I think the media argues all the time with itself.

Like the saying goes, don't believe everything you read.