Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.

The skills you acquire can always be effectively redeployed. You will look back on setbacks and be grateful for the catalyst that came not a moment too soon.

I've never been fired in my life. From anything. I've never failed at anything I've tried.

Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.

I have prevented my kids from watching MTV at home. It's not safe for kids.

I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.

Innovation is taking two things that already exist and putting them together in a new way.