We Don't Celebrate Failure In Silicon Valley.

Boom And Bust Cycles Are Very Difficult For Businesses Because You're Hiring A Bunch Because You're Planning For The Future. And If The Future Is Going To Be Very Big, You Need To Hire People, Or Suddenly You Go To Boom To Bust, Then All Of A Sudden, You're Kind Of Battening Down The Hatches And Trying To Sail, You Know, Through The Storm, It's A Different Thing. So Part Of It Is Making Good Decisions About, Well, How Long Is A Boom Cycle Going To Be, You Know, Don't Plan On It Going Forever.

Society Flourishes When People Think Entrepreneurally.

There Are Two Reasons [ Business People Are Not Publicly Anti-donald Trump ], One Is Well-intentioned, Which Is The Classic Kind Of American Notion. 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."

You Gotta Be Both Flexible And Persistent.

One Of The Tests That I Frequently Use In An Interaction Is I Push On The Idea And What I'm Looking For Is Both Flexibility & Persistence.