Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers.

Now, in economic crises times, the kind of things you're looking at is it's generally harder to get capital, revenue growth may be more, revenue lines may be unstable or growth may be less easy to predict that you're going to get to. And so what you do is you take a certain conservative approach of when, as all entrepreneurs should do, you plan for both good luck and bad luck, you put extra time on, "Okay, if I have bad luck, what do I do about that?"

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people