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.

Companies hire a lot during boom times because they're trying to adequately accelerate into the future.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

[Hillary Clinton] is part of the establishment, and that's good for foreign policy and for understanding the ongoing health care system.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

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