Google never knew how successful key words would be. Facebook didn't know how successful Zynga would be.
Russia is one of the places where significant presence of social networks are driven by domestic players right now.
Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
We don't need to solve the problem of the rich-poor gap. We need to solve the problem of common prosperity.
Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand-new day.
Hanging out with politicians and corporations is very unhip work. But I think that the U2 audience have turned out to be incredibly subtle in their understanding.
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
You cannot manage an airline from a corner office in Willis Tower. That doesn't work. You've got to manage by walking around.
I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.
Make sure you are the boss. I don't think I would encourage executives that work for me to blog. There can be only 1 public vision for an organization.
As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
You don't need to know someone personally to be able to discern whether their work is high quality or not. The idea of a meritocracy is that it's what they do, not who they are.
Everybody believes in innovation until they see it. Then they think, 'Oh, no; that'll never work. It's too different.'
If the work requires smart, talented, creative people, then more than anything, you want to enable folks on the team to create.
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
This old notion that work is drudgery is nonsense. Most days, even back when Xerox was under siege, I could not wait to get to the office.
When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.
