"If you send out 50 résumés, you are lucky to get one positive response, so the rejection rate is extremely high, which is good to know as a baseline. It is not you; it is that everybody gets rejected 95% of the time. You only have to succeed once."
"I believe that people should say what they believe to be true. That is your obligation; it is also your right. But it comes with an obligation. I don't believe that true speech is possible without free speech."
"You cannot negotiate from a position of weakness if you want to push your career forward. First of all, you do, in fact, have to push it forward because if you're competent and silent, you will be ignored."