As the company grows and about this 25 or so employee size, your main job shifts from building a great product to building a great company.

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.

'Tis God gives skill but not without men's hands: he could not make Antonio Stradivarius violins without Antonio.

You're going to struggle. You're going to do well. You can't really let the past or the day before - whether you had a good day or bad day - dictate the day you have that certain day.

Invisible, repetitive, exhausting, unproductive, uncreative - these are the adjectives which most perfectly capture the nature of housework.

I play piano and I sing. But I do that for fun. I mean, I do everything for fun.

Christ came down to save us from a terrible hell, and any man who is cast down to hell from here must go in the full blaze of the gospel, and over the mangled body of the Son of God.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

tht's why u mst never forget ma sister jodie

I trust my mom with anything. If I have a problem, my mom is always the first person I go to.

To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.