Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

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?"

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

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?"

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.