Silicon Valley

Technology doesn't change who we are — it magnifies who we are, the good and the bad.

If you've built a chaos factory, you can't dodge responsibility for the chaos.

In a world without digital privacy, even if you have done nothing wrong other than think differently, you begin to censor yourself. Not entirely at first. Just a little, bit by bit. To risk less, to hope less, to imagine less, to dare less, to create less, to try less, to talk less, to think less.

The most traditionally successful people I know were divorced and they told me sacrificing their families wasn't worth it. Hold your children up high as your greatest inventions because they are.

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.

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

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.

The world is run by those who show up, not those who wait to be asked.

Innovation comes from those who see things that others don't. Be persistent. Never give up.

It's your curiosity and enthusiasm that will get you noticed and make your life interesting—not your grade point average.

You get to make your own luck. Eighty percent of success in your career will come from just showing up. The world is run by those who show up — not those who wait to be asked.