Everyone starting a startup for the first time is scared, and everyone feels like a bit of an imposter.

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.

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 prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

If we could imagine, while we live them, to what mundane moments nostalgia manages to stick itself...

Life is for happiness and we feel it with appreciation and kindness.

In Lascaux and other sites, hoofs are depicted to show their underside, or hoofprint.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

I can remember the very spot in the road, whilst in my carriage, when to my joy the solution occurred to me.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career.

Football is not played on paper, it is played on a pitch. This game is not mathematics and in football, two plus two very rarely equals four - it's usually three or five.

I was a big fan of Super Troopers, so working with the Broken Lizard guys was so much fun.