At the beginning, you should only hire when you have a desperate need to.

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.

I try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.-Snagglepuss

When you show others love, you are shown love. When you give love, you receive love.

face touchage" "lame-sauce" "Sulky McSulkerton

I am open to the guidance of synchronicity, and do not let expectations hinder my path.

I only dunked maybe twice a game on average.

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

It would be important for someone to understand how much our music means to us. Our music comes first right now and hopefully for ever.

I wish these flies would piss off.

Russia doesn't want any arms race. Russia would not engage in the arms race. We have enough technological means to provide not very expensive answer to the efforts to build missile defense.

Art never seems to make me peaceful or pure. I always seem to be wrapped in the melodrama of vulgarity. I do not think... of art as a situation of comfort.