In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

Big companies have trouble with innovation. Innovation is about bad ideas, or ideas that look like bad ideas. That's the fundamental thing.

Leadership is hard to train on.

I have spent my career building and improving secure, trustworthy systems, and I am very proud to be working on security at Yahoo.

I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Imagine if we could create the most just workplace in the world. We would naturally be a magnet for all the great minds out there.

I don't ever want to get too comfortable in my career or life. My nature is such that I'm always looking for new challenges.