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

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

When you think about being contrarian, you have to think about - how is it that smart people will disagree with me, disagree with me ...from a position of intelligence, and there is something that I know that they don't know, that will actually in fact play out to be true.

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

Times of economic crises can change what the competitive landscape looks like, because when, for example, you have boom times, capital is easy to come by, growth is easy, sometimes what you focus on is, you know, how to accelerate in the boom. During economic crises, the question is, the companies that come out of, you know, that are sailing through that with the best liquidity, both assets on the balance sheet, making money, ability to grow their businesses, get a disproportionate competitive advantage.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.