Success.. is no longer a simple ascension of steps. You need to climb sideways and sometimes down, and sometimes you need to swing from the jungle gym and establish your own turf somewhere else on the playground.

Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

We don't celebrate failure in Silicon Valley. We celebrate learning.

Silicon Valley's success comes from the way its companies build alliances with their employees.

The real secret of Silicon Valley is that it's really all about the people.

We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, 'No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics.'

So benevolent, enlightened, wise dictators are the most efficient form of government. The problem is what comes afterwards, right?

Democracy tends to be a collaborative process, a committee, a consensus. Silicon Valley tends to believe in the individual who creates a small group and does something big.

There's a lot of people in the world that would love to trade places with American citizens, and we are very fortunate to be here.

If performance management were a movie, it will become less 'Gladiator' and more 'Moneyball.'