"Building a career or a company is about living a few years of your life like most people won't so that you can spend the rest of your life living at a level most people can't."

"Corporate planning cycles are a classic example of generals fighting the last ware over again instead of preparing for what might lie ahead."

"Solve for others to solve for you."

"The difference between successful and unsuccessful people is that successful ones know that the most unprofitable thing ever manufactured is an excuse."

"Starting each day with a positive mindset is the most important step of your journey to discovering opportunity."

"You can truly have it all, just not all at the same time."

"Plan for ways to get more enjoyment into your life and you will get more joy out of it."

"If you don't know where you want to be in five years, how do you ever expect to get there?"

"A career is just a longer trip with a whole lot more baggage."

"Accepting that the odds are against you is the same as accepting defeat before you begin."

"An average idea enthusiastically embraced will go further than a genius idea no one gets."

"Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel."

"In life, you get what you believe you deserve."

"A negative mind will never find success. I have never heard a positive idea come from a person in a negative state."

"Disruption isn't about what happens to you, it's about how you respond to what happens to you."

"The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better."

"Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?"

"The most successful people have the same twenty-four hours in a day that you do."

"Security doesn't rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition."

"All businesses — no matter if they make dog food or software — don't sell products, they sell solutions."

"There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up."

"Disruption causes vast sums of money to flow from existing businesses and business models to new entrants."

"Lifelong learning is no longer a luxury but a necessity for employment."

"A dream with a deadline is a goal."

"All disruption starts with introspection."

"You have a choice: pursue your dreams or be hired by someone else to help them fulfill their dreams."

"There are riches to be found simply by capturing the value released through others' disruptive breakthroughs."

"Your energy is a valuable resource, distribute it wisely."

"You'll never know how close you are to victory if you give up."

"Buying gold is just buying a put against the idiocy of the political cycle. It's that simple."

"You can't hate the mirror because you're ugly."

"Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without Hell."

"They put lipstick on the pig to try to sell it to somebody that didn't know what they were buying."

"As we walked out of that room, he put his arm around me and said 'That's a very compelling presentation, and God, we hope you're wrong."

"Conferences at the top level are always courteous. Name calling is left to the foreign ministers."

"I think the top leadership challenge issue in our world today is how to deal with the continuing, growing population in the world and all the resource demands it places on the world and burgeoning populations in Africa and Asia that lack the resources to have a healthy, happy life."

"We’ve got to find a way to make the world work for everyone. Climate change is an issue that impacts [sic] that greatly by making it harder for people to live where they live, by causing disruptions, and lack of resources."

"If you want to appoint someone to help stop the spread of a lethal contagion, you would never think of Klain. But if you want to contain the Ebola episode so it stays as quiet as possible until after the election, he is the right guy for the job. Good luck to us all."

"I’m proud of what we achieved at Yahoo. That said, we had a quickly decaying legacy business. All we really managed to do was offset the declines."

"There are different phases of companies. When you’re in the tens of people, the idea itself either attracts people or it doesn’t. People are there because they think the problem you’re trying to solve is just that important."

"I've heard both the founding stories of Google and Yahoo, and for both those companies, the founders didn't even have to get into a car. They could literally go to the law office, the venture capitalists, the bank... on a bike. It's all that close together."

"David Karp is just incredibly special. I like to think that I’m good at empathy, but I will say that David Karp is just incredibly empathetic and really in tune with the community of people that he has, that are contributing and creating on Tumblr."

"I think I’ve always thought of culture as DNA. I don’t know a lot about genetics, but I understand some of it and I think that what you really want are the genes that are positive to hyper-express themselves in culture."

"It was the height of the first boom, so it was 1999. It was a good year to be a graduate in computer science."

"I’ve tried to be gender-blind and believe tech is a gender-neutral zone but do think there has been gender-charged reporting. We all see the things that only plague women leaders, like articles that focus on their appearance, like Hillary Clinton sporting a new pantsuit. I think all women are aware of that, but I had hoped in 2015 and 2016 that I would see fewer articles like that. It’s a shame."

"I was at Google. And if you looked at Tumblr and Yahoo!, you know when you look at a map and you can see the way that South America and Africa used to fit together, I sort of joked that as we got to know Tumblr we were like we kind of felt like those continents, like our users were older, their users were younger."

"I think that the big piece here is that it really allows us to partner. Yahoo! has always been a very friendly company."

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough."

"If you can find something that you're really passionate about, whether you're a man or a woman comes a lot less into play. Passion is a gender-neutralizing force."