One reason people who spend a lot of time thinking about and working on a problem or a craft seem to find breakthroughs more often than everyone else is that they've failed more often than everyone else.

The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.

If you're different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

If failure is not an option, neither is success. Innovation is just repeated failure till you come up with something that works.

Self sufficiency appears to be a worthy goal, but it's now impossible if you want to actually get anything done. All our productivity, leverage and insight comes from being part of a community, not apart from it. The goal, I think, is to figure out how to become more dependent, not less.

When you think about Uber and Airbnb and the other companies that are turning things upside down, Uber isn't big 'cause they ran a lot of ads. They're big because someone took out their iPhone and said to their friend, watch this, and pressed a button and a car pulled up.