People are still very focused on the startup story: Risk-taking founders, with a bold idea, some capital and a network supportive environment, go out and take the shot on goal. But the problem is, this is no longer the truth about what makes Silicon Valley so special.

An entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

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.

Every individual is essentially now a small business and entrepreneur.

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.

The underpinnings of the alliance: the company helps the employee transform his career; the employee helps the company transform.

The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. There are bureaucratic and economic aspects to it as well. All these different aspects commingle in ways that convince me we should take whatever steps we can to abolish the death penalty.

People will be discovering that the Internet helps their career. One of my theses is that every individual is now a small business; how you manage your own personal career is the exact way you manage a small business. Your brand matters. That is how LinkedIn operates.

People are legitimately worried about Donald Trump, almost like a schoolyard bully, if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning -- what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

I actually think every individual is now an entrepreneur, whether they recognize it or not.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Entrepreneurs are like visionaries. One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they're doing as something that's going to be the whole world.

When thinking about how to deploy kind of professional and social networking into your business, it's really not a question of if -- it's a question of when.

If you could train an AI to be a Buddhist, it would probably be pretty good.

As an entrepreneur and investor, I prioritize construction and collaboration. Whether it's a five-person start-up or a global giant, the companies that are most productive are the ones whose employees operate with a shared sense of purpose and a clear set of policies for responding to changing conditions and new opportunities.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

When you turn a company profitable you've gone from a company whose days are numbered to a company whose days can be infinite.

The way you deal with bullies is you change their economic equation. Make it more expensive for them to hassle you.

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