In the end, a vision without the ability to execute it is probably a hallucination.

And I'd say one of the great lessons I've learned over the past couple of decades, from a management perspective, is that really when you come down to it, it really is all about people and all about leadership.

We need that same mentality in philanthropy, trying things, taking risks, recognizing the first try, maybe the second try, maybe the third try won't work. But if you stay at it and you're learning, you're talking to others, and you're learning together, eventually you'll break through and see the kind of impact you were hoping for.

I want to find people who have had to work hard and who have learned from their failures. Perseverance is no guarantee you’ll succeed, but without it, it’s almost guaranteed you won’t.

All great ideas start as weird ideas. What now seems obvious, early on, is not obvious to anybody.

At AOL, we thought the killer app was people

Think about this: It was illegal for most people to connect to the internet before 1992.