"If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley."
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"Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!"
"We're all so busy. We race and race. Life is a sprint. We want to get 'there' so badly. But I wonder if we even know what to do when we actually get 'there'."
"You want to know about creativity? Just go out and buy that book Imagine by Jonah Lehrer. It's only $29.00 in hardcover."
"Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be."
"If you want to know, life is the principle of self-renewal, it is constantly renewing and remaking and changing and transfiguring itself."
"Sachin Tendulkar is a guy you don't want to chat to period, because he will knuckle down..."
"Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done."
"If you want to be successful, find someone who has already done it and do it the same way they did."
"Manage by objectives. Tell people exactly what you want them to do and then get out of their way."
"Success is the ability to live your life, the way you want to live it, doing what you enjoy most, surrounded by people you admire and respect."
"You have to have horror that is entertaining, where you can laugh. Most people don't want you to laugh at horror. They just want you to just be disgusted and terrified."
"Want to be happy? Stop trying to be perfect."
"If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging."
"The reality of it is you have to be over the top if you want to be noticed."
"I like to think of myself as a pirate and you're just walking that person out on the plank. And then you pull them back when you get what you want. Of course, sometimes, in the beginning, you're going to push a little too far."
"Anyone with an Internet service provider can be a pundit or whatever they want."
"If you want to stay in a state of illusion, stay in it. But you can always wake up."
"If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales."
"I don't want to represent man as he is, but only as he might be."