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I'm a little unusual: I'm a six-person-or-less extrovert.

One lunch is worth dozens of emails.

Not only CAN anyone be an entrepreneur, but they MUST be.

You jump off a cliff and you assemble an airplane on the way down.

Get busy livin', or get busy dyin'. If you're not growing, you're contracting. If you're not moving forward, you're moving backward.

Help the people in your network. And let them help you.

By 2030 over 2 billion jobs will disappear.

Pay attention to your culture and your hires from the very beginning.

Great opportunities almost never fit your schedule.

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

Before dreaming about the future or marking plans, you need to articulate what you already have going for you - as entrepreneurs do.

In this sense, the world of tomorrow will be more like the Silicon Valley of today: constant change and chaos.

The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

In this sense, a business is far more like a sports team than a family.

These stewards of the company way are the intellectual and emotional foundation of the organization.

When the Naysayers Are Loud, Turn Up the Music

It's very conventional to say that you're a contrarian these days.

One of the tests that I frequently use in an interaction is I push on the idea and what I'm looking for is both flexibility & persistence.

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

Many people think you get career stability by minimizing all risk. But ironically, in a changing world, that's one of the riskiest things you can do.

A product needs to be sufficiently innovative to distinguish itself from the pack, but not so forward thinking as to alienate the user.

Most often I am only interested in an idea if it's going to get hundreds of millions of users. That's the scale that I am always trying to play to.

Having a great idea for a product is important, but having a great idea for product distribution is even more important.

Ideally, most of the top executives of a company should be on Foundational tours.

You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

Relatively few people should start companies.

Data only exists within the framework of a vision you're building to, a hypothesis of where you're moving to.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.

All human beings are entrepreneurs.

Whether you want to learn a new skill or simply be better at the job you were hired to do, it's now your job to train and invest in yourself.

You remake yourself as you grow and as the world changes. Your identity doesn't get found. It emerges.

It's actually pretty easy to be contrarian. It's hard to be contrarian and right.

My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn.

Be persistent, and hang on to your vision. And at the same time, be flexible.

We believe that when the right talent meets the right opportunity in a company with the right philosophy, amazing transformation can happen.

The value of being connected and transparent is so high that the roadbumps of privacy issues are much lower in actual experience than people's fears.

The future is sooner and stranger than you think.

Entrepreneurship is a life idea, not a strictly business one; a global idea, not a strictly American one.

You gotta be both flexible and persistent.

When I'm raising money, this fundraising, I'm thinking about the next fundraising. I'm thinking how I'm set up for it.

And people who take risk intelligently can usually actually make a lot more progress than people who don't.

You have to be constantly reinventing yourself and investing in the future.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

They scribbled observations in notebooks.

When you have an idea, a classic entrepreneurial impulse is to hold the idea close to you and not tell people and that's almost always a mistake.

When you're doing work you care about, you are able to work harder and better.

Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

If you aren't embarrassed by the first version of your product, you shipped too late.

So usually you have to have product distribution as more fundamental than what the actual product is.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.

Remember: If you don't find risk, risk will find you.

One of the phrases I frequently look for is infinite learning curve.Because each entrepreneurial pattern is to some degree unique and new.

Keeping your options open" is frequently more of a risk than committing to a plan of action.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

The metaphor that I frequently use for entrepreneurship is jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane plane on the way down.

If you are not receiving or making at least one introduction a month, you are probably not fully engaging your extended professional network.

Start a personal blog and begin developing a public reputation and public portfolio of work that's not tied to your employer.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

A lot of smart people are prone to over-analysis and tend to become paralyzed by indecision

Until you hear "No," you haven't been turned down.

For many people "twenty years of experience" is really one year of experience repeated twenty times.

In public market investing, as in many things, you achieve big success when you're both contrarian and right.

You need to think and act like you're running a start-up: your career.

In software, speed to market, speed to learning is really key. In hardware, if you screw it up, you're dead. So accuracy really matters.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning

Social networks do best when they tap into one of the seven deadly sins. Facebook is ego. Zynga is sloth. LinkedIn is greed.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people

Professional loyalty now flows "horizontally" to and from your network rather than "vertically" to your boss, as Dan Pink has noted.

I get energy from one-on-one conversations most often, and I lose energy from group conversations most often.

Innovation comes from long-term thinking and iterative execution.

The challenge when you think about product distribution is: how are you competing for potential customers or potential members time.

This is classic when you begin thinking about what is a great founder is, you navigate what is apparent paradoxes.

The person passionate about what he or she is doing will outwork and outlast the guy motivated solely by making money.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

It is like the feeling you have when someone says your first name all the time in conversation and you know he's been reading Carnegie.

It's better to be the best connected than the most connected.

Easy success had transformed the American auto companies into risk-averse, nonmeritocratic, bloated bureaucracies.

No one cares who you are or are not dating on LinkedIn.

World-changing startups need to be premised on accurate contrarian theories.

First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

Part of the entrepreneurial thing is there are lots of ways to die.