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

Entrepreneurship: 10% coach, 20% player, 30% cheerleader, 40% waterboy.

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.

After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts.

In every company which I have done strategic planning, the number-one value people choose is always integrity. The second values may be quality of products and services, caring about people, excellent customer service, profitability , innovation, entrepreneurship, and others. But integrity always comes first.

Entrepreneurship is the art of finding profitable solutions to problems.

I think entrepreneurship is our natural state--a big adult word that probably boils down to something much more obvious like playfulness.

When it’s too easy to get money, then you get a lot of noise mixed in with the real innovation and entrepreneurship. Tough times bring out the best parts of Silicon Valley.

Microloans enable the poor to lift themselves out of poverty through entrepreneurship.

I didn't go to college, but if I did, I would've taken all my tests at a restaurant, 'cause 'The customer is always right'.

Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00-2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00.

Not a single person whose name is worth remembering lived a life of ease.

In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

To have a stable economy, to have a stable democracy, and to have a modern government is not enough. We have to build new pillars of development. Education, science and technology, innovation and entrepreneurship, and more equality.

A friend of mine, a Hispanic entrepreneur asked me a question sometime ago, he said, 'When is the last time you saw a Hispanic panhandler?' I think it's a great question. I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging.

Science and vision are not opposites or even at odds. They need each other. I sometimes hear other startup folks say something along the lines of: 'If entrepreneurship was a science, then anyone could do it.' I'd like to point out that even science is a science, and still very few people can do it, let alone do it well.

Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.

Entrepreneurs need to start building today. The barrier to entry in tech is low, so start designing, start coding it, launch it, build prototypes, build a working version of it. The Internet has amazing powers of distribution. You can test your ideas. You can see if it works, if it doesn't work, whether it's fun, and whether you're sufficiently motivated. People who go into entrepreneurship to get rich aren't going to be happy. It’s the building of things that makes you happy. You have to enjoy the process whether you succeed or fail.

I believe the American dream is still alive and that education and entrepreneurship together are its key enablers. Through the years I have observed the power of this combination when the two forces work in tandem. Together they lead to personal success, business success, and societal success.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.