...Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

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.

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

When you’re doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

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