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

Managing risk is a key variable, frankly, all aspects of life, business is just one of them, and one of the things that most people do in terms of managing risk, that's actually bad thinking, is they think they can manage risk to zero. Everything has some risk to it. You know, you drive your car down the street, a drunk driver may hit you. So what you're doing is you're actually trying to get to an acceptable level of risk.

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

I think Hillary [Clinton] hears the anger in a broad swath of the American people, and she says, "OK, how do I help create a future that's good for you?"

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

I think I knew how frightened people were [when Donald Trump was elected], and I think I knew that people were worried about their future. I don't think I realized that they would be willing to risk kind of a 1920s Germany in order to blow it all up, not realizing that we've accomplished a lot as Americans, and we want to keep the good things and revolutionize the new things.

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.