Entrepreneurship

I had to go and chop down that wood and build my own table. Then I had to invite the best there was to have a seat.

Not everything in Silicon Valley or any industry or life for that matter need be portrayed as home runs or strike-outs — success or failure — it's just what you hear about so often because it's what sells newspapers.

Hold your children up high as your greatest inventions because they are. I invented something many of you use every day and it doesn't compare to any day with a happy, healthy child.

Don't step on anyone's neck to advance your cause. Never sue anyone, and try not to get sued. You will sleep better at night.

Success is not an entitlement. It has to be earned every day through the lens of humility.

Ideas don't come out fully formed. They only become clear as you work on them. You just have to get started.

At this moment in your life you know fewer limits, fewer taboos and fewer fears than you will ever in the future. So do not squander your ignorance.

If you're starting a company, you always want to aim for monopoly and you want to always avoid competition. Competition is for losers.

All happy companies are different because they're doing something very unique. All unhappy companies are alike because they failed to escape the essential sameness that is competition.

Start with a really small market and take over that whole market, and then over time find ways to expand that market in concentric circles.

Don't always go through the tiny little door that everyone's trying to rush through. Maybe go around the corner and go through the vast gate that no one's taking.

There's an infinite number of possibilities for you to create for yourself now, today, with no one to stop you but your own inertia.