"If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion."

"I wouldn't say I have a lack of fear. In fact, I'd like my fear emotion to be less because it's very distracting and fries my nervous system."

"Really pay attention to negative feedback and solicit it, particularly from friends. ... Hardly anyone does that, and it's incredibly helpful."

"The first step is to establish that something is possible; then probability will occur."

"I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done."

"I don't spend my time pontificating about high-concept things; I spend my time solving engineering and manufacturing problems."

"If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do... If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed... No task is too menial."

"It's OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket."

"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering."

"The path to the CEO's office should not be through the CFO's office, and it should not be through the marketing department. It needs to be through engineering and design."

"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

"When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor."

"I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

"Draw Your Line Through the Lives of Others"

“The weak get eaten”-

The real minimum wage is zero.

If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero.

A zero itself is nothing, but without a zero you cannot count anything; therefore, a zero is something, yet zero.

"Kindness can only be repaid with kindness. It can’t be repaid with expressions like ‘thank you’ and then forgotten."

"I told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow. Education is neither eastern or western, it is human"

"The only solution is education, education, education."

"Told him that instead of focusing on eradicating terrorism through war, he should focus on eradicating it through education."

"At night our fear is strong . . . but in the morning, in the light, we find our courage again."