If you have millions and millions of dollars, you're living in a totally different world. You don't feel it anymore and you've got to feel it.

If you are armed with knowledge, if you are aware that certain dynamics are at play then you have options. You can play defense, you can ignore certain person and take the consequences perhaps with a game plan in mind and it goes on, you've increased your options.

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

Understand: you are one of a kind. Your character traits are a kind of chemical mix that will never be repeated in history. There are ideas unique to you, a specific rhythm and perspective that are your strengths, not your weaknesses. You must not be afraid of your uniqueness and you must care less and less what people think of you.

There was writing and foreign languages. I always had an ease with foreign languages. So the both are related, both language related kind of mind.

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.