It is impossible to dissociate an individual from the environment of which he is a part. No story of achievement should ever be removed from its broader social context.

One of the things is when you think, "Wait, I'm fearful of retaliation, I'm fearful of oppression because of someone who is going into a public office, who might be vengeful for their own personal reasons, that's actually not a reason to hide - that's a reason to step up, right?"This is part of what we learned from the 1920s.

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

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

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