“I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.”

A Crow was sitting on a branch of a tree with a piece of cheese in her beak when a Fox observed her and set his wits to work to discover some way of getting the cheese. Coming and standing under the tree he looked up and said, "What a noble bird I see above me! Her beauty is without equal, the hue of her plumage exquisite. If only her voice is as sweet as her looks are fair, she ought without doubt to be Queen of the Birds." The Crow was hugely flattered by this, and just to show the Fox that she could sing she gave a loud caw. Down came the cheese, of course, and the Fox, snatching it up, said, "You have a voice, madam, I see: what you want is wits.”

“Every individual is continually exerting himself to find out the most advantageous employment for whatever capital he can command. It is his own advantage, indeed, and not that of the society which he has in view. But the study of his own advantage naturally, or rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment which is most advantageous to society... He intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention”

“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”

Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.

Businesses owned by responsible and organized merchants shall eventually surpass those owned by wealthy rulers.

“But, except for a good shaking, and some fine big bruises, Fatty was not hurt at all. His fat had kept him from breaking any bones!”

“No one is allowed to live here unless they first lose their tempers and then get permission from me to take a house”

“It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.”

“I think people make their own faces, as they grow.”

"I think we have a duty to maintain the light of consciousness to make sure it continues into the future."

"I think most of the important stuff on the Internet has been built. There will be continued innovation, for sure, but the great problems of the Internet have essentially been solved."

"Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death."

"What makes innovative thinking happen?... I think it's really a mindset. You have to decide."

"If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not."

"I don't believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that 'it's all about the process,' I see that as a bad sign. The problem is that at a lot of big companies, process becomes a substitute for thinking. You're encouraged to behave like a little gear in a complex machine. Frankly, it allows you to keep people who aren't that smart, who aren't that creative."

"My biggest mistake is probably weighing too much on someone's talent and not someone's personality. I think it matters whether someone has a good heart."

"I say something, and then it usually happens. Maybe not on schedule, but it usually happens."

"I don't think it's a good idea to plan to sell a company."

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

"I think it's very important to have a feedback loop, where you're constantly thinking about what you've done and how you could be doing it better."

Beauty isn't between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical.

“There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear.”

"Is not at all uncommon for women in my country to be illiterate, but to see my mother, a proud and intelligent woman, struggle to read the prices in the bazaar was an unspoken sadness for both of us, I think."