A lot of people treat choosing their cofounder with even less importance than they put on hiring. Don't do this.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

You can create value with breakthrough innovation, incremental refinement, or complex coordination. Great companies often do two of these. The very best companies do all three.

Founders are usually very stingy with equity to employees and very generous with equity to investors. I think this is totally backwards.

Obsess about the quality of the product.

In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

You have to be decisive. Indecisiveness is a startup killer.

Execution gets divided into two key questions: 1) can you figure out what to do and 2) can you get it done.

If you don't need it yourself, and you're building something that someone else needs, realize you're at a big disadvantage.

Health is more than the absence of disease. Health is about jobs and employment, education, the environment, and all of those things that go into making us healthy.

When you have a hammer in your hand, everything around you starts looking like a nail.

There are very few good examples of effective, nurturing leadership that unlocks people's potential or even enthusiasm.

The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

The actor is not quite a human being-but then, who is?

Actually, I graduated from university as a journalist.

As the physically weak man can make himself strong by careful and patient training, so the man of weak thoughts can make them strong by exercising himself in right thinking.

When I think of folk music, I think of topical songs. And I don't write topical songs.

When the law disarms good guys, bad guys rejoice.