I think most of [people] are not very well educated themselves to understand the Winston Churchill line - democracy is the worst of all governments until you consider all the other ones.

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

Opportunities do not float like clouds in the sky. They're attached to people. If you're looking for an opportunity, you're really looking for a person.

Benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

Make sure a certain percentage of the people that you're hiring are generalists so that you can be, kind of reconfigured in the workforce pretty easily.