A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

Young people are just smarter.

There’s a difference between being obsessed and being motivated.

You grow more when you get more people’s perspective.

People influence people. Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend. A trusted referral influences people more than the best broadcast message. A trusted referral is the Holy Grail of advertising.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand.

By giving people the power to share, we’re making the world more transparent.

If you’re always under the pressure of real identity, I think that is somewhat of a burden.

Hollywood has nothing to do with real life.

When you want to change things, you can’t please everyone. If you do please everyone, you aren’t making enough progress.

I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.

Books allow you to fully explore a topic and immerse yourself in a deeper way than most media today. I’m looking forward to shifting more of my media diet towards reading books.

I think video is a mega trend, almost as big as mobile.

The unsupervised learning is the way most people will learn in the future. You have this model of how the world works in your head and you’re refining it to predict what you think is going to happen in the future.

People think innovation is just having a good idea but a lot of it is just moving quickly and trying a lot of things.

I think a simple rule of business is, if you do the things that are easier first, then you can actually make a lot of progress.

I would only hire someone to work directly for me if I was willing to work for that person.

People can be really smart or have skills that are directly applicable, but if they don’t really believe in it, then they are not going to really work hard.

The days of you having a different image for your work friends or co-workers and for the other people you know are probably coming to an end pretty quickly. Having two identities for yourself is an example of a lack of integrity.