The thing that changes your professional life, your capabilities, your learning, your understanding, your opportunity flow, your ability to make things happen, is the center relationships you have with powerful and effective people around you in the industry, in the activity that you want to be doing.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

There are opportunities that you get during crises times. Crises times are a great time to start a business.

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