A single mediocre hire in the first five will often in fact kill a startup.

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.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

He kissed me hard and I kissed him back harder, like it was the end of an era that had lasted all of my life.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

I shop for clothes when I have time - early in the morning or late at night.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

It is easy to dodge our responsibilities, but we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities.

I did feel when my mother died if anyone was going to haunt me it would be her. And she hasn't, so I think it is possibly the end.

I love wearing designer pieces with something I found at Target.

It's abundantly clear that we already have extraterrestrials living among us, and people are stepping forward who can communicate with them.

The history of man that you don't know is what your unconscious is made out of. Just as the history of yourself that you don't know is what your personal unconscious is made out of.