Firing people is one of the worst parts of running a company. Actually in my own experience, I think it is the worst.

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.

if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.

People do not have to be dreary to be good.

I don't claim to know everything about parenting, but I do know parents do their children a disservice by constantly sugarcoating their shortcomings to protect their feelings.

I can be a horrible actor, but I make a move that makes a money I'm secured a job.

Some people believe God is involved in every little decision we make. Some people believe you're given the free will to make the decisions. Sometimes people believe God is not involved at all.

Any of the exercises that you start out with will get the kundalini moving. You don't have to stay with them for the entire period of meditation.

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

The future is not set in stone, and even if it was, stone can be broken.

If your life is motivated by your ambition to leave a legacy, what you'll probably leave as a legacy is ambition.

Kings in this world should imitate God, their mercy should be above their works.