Cofounder relationships are among the most important in the entire 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.

Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough!

Your Life Purpose is a blend of your Core Personality Needs. Remember it, define it and refine it as you journey through life.

That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.

The mother is the most essential piece on the board, the one you must protect. Only she has the range. Only she can move in multiple directions. Once she's gone, it's a whole different game.

Mercy turns her back to the unmerciful.

It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

I love you. You are my heart beating outside of my chest.

The government doesn't run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.

Paul says that as Christians we can rejoice even in tough times because we have hope and because we know that God is working in our lives.

Look at the scope of writers who sell stuff. I'm at the very top of the power curve in terms of sales.