There's an ability to learn & adapt, an ability to constantly have a vision that's driving you, but to be taking input from all sources.

The first set of questions to ask yourself when you're doing cost cutting is relatively straightforward, which is, you know, can you use the necessity of cost cutting as an opportunity to do pruning or trimming for projects that aren't being as successful? But, you know, frequently those are the easy ones. I mean, there's always some kind of social costs internal to the company, but that's the easy way of looking at the future.

Democracy is always frustrating.

We've been working for years on how we can use technology to help people make their own jobs, become entrepreneurs, create their own small businesses. Those are the kinds of things that I and a bunch of other people at LinkedIn actually work on.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

[Hillary Clinton] is also smart, she talks to people, she hears, and she says, "OK, I need to update, we need some much bigger changes."