If I ever hear a founder talk about oh this is how I have a balanced life so on and so forth - they're not committed to winning.

Probably the biggest mistake that I made personally is I knew early on that I wanted to go into start-ups and creating kind of software that could help change the lives of millions of people. And basically what I did is I kind of went, okay, well, I need a set of titles and I need a checklist of skills, and I ran through all that, and that wasn't a useless thing, but what I didn't realize, and, you know, and no one gave me the right advice for doing this, is that actually your network, in essentially, is your career.

The key issue when you're looking at cost cutting is to always plan for the future.

People who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if, it's a question of when. And the reason is, just think about the fact that those businesses that adopt new technologies to operate efficiently and use them to get a competitive edge are the businesses that in fact, you know, it becomes one more competitive advantage. Whether it's a fax machine or a mobile phone or a new way of doing financing or any of these things, you know, these are key things to do.

I think Hillary [Clinton] has [woken up to the plight of the middle class] and is working toward it in a democratic process.