If there's some triumphant end of the story, I guess in a roundabout way I've gotten what I wanted, which is the ability to do interesting things and the wealth to be free.
Part of the challenge of being an entrepreneur, if you're going for a really huge opportunity, is trying to find problems that aren't quite on the radar yet and try to solve those.
You just keep pushing yourself harder and harder to achieve more and more - I don't think it's ever quite as glamorous as it appears on the outside.
I've been doing a hybrid of investing and entrepreneurship, which I think initially I wasn't set out to do. But I realized it fit my personality.
The most important thing - and I've said it a hundred times and I'll say it a hundred times - if you marry a man, marry the right one.
I want to tell any young girl out there who's a geek, I was a really serious geek in high school. It works out. Study harder.
I'm concerned with China growing at double or triple the rate of the West, that there will be tensions. One needs to do something to start addressing misunderstandings and frustration.
My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
My father was very bright. My mother had enormous drive. Put that together, and that's my gene pool.
Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
And it was where I learned how to play tennis and eventually became captain of the tennis team at the school and was on the Junior Davis Cup in New York City.
People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.
I have this desire to create things and build things, and Google has enabled me to build and create things and to build products that are used by people all over the globe.
From an app point of view, if you looked at innovation on the PC, you'd be hard pressed to find companies innovating. The list is small.
Once I decide to do something, I want to win in the worst way. I will do anything within the law to win.
Our customers call and e-mail us to say that's how it feels when a Zappos box arrives. And that's how we view this company.
I view my role more as trying to set up an environment where the personalities, creativity and individuality of all the different employees come out and can shine.
When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
I was very fortunate in my gene mix. The gambling instincts I inherited from my father were matched by my mother's gift for analysis.
Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
To me, emails are a little bit frustrating. I think that the telephone is much preferred because you get the sound of the voice and the interest and everything else you can't see in an email.
