A small communication breakdown is enough for everyone to be working on slightly different things. And then you loose focus.

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.

After staring at the poor in the eyes, my thoughts on how best to help people have dramatically changed.

My job is to entertain people by playing my music well. You shouldn't really be upset because people like you, should you?

An ounce of wisdom can prevent a pound of folly.

Most people in the Tea Party are nice, but that hasn't stopped liberals from hating them.

Postmodern comedy doesn't work well with very old audiences, because it's making fun of the comedy they enjoy.

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

I keep saying I'm not at all famous in my own country, because people do not think I have done anything for India.

Being both entrepreneurial and social is no longer an oxymoron, but rather a tautology.

Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity.

The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.