I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

One of the great strengths of American culture is this empowerment of individual, is the individual being able to be entrepreneurial, create new things. But you create a whole group of people to make great companies. It's employees and investors and customers and partners. The fabric of society, of a network of relations, is key to being successful.

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

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

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

Success...is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.