If someone is choosing between joining McKinsey or your startup it's very unlikely they're going to work out at the startup.

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.

Through many tributions, we begin to search for the truth.

The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the study where he could watch a small hibiscus plant shed its pink leaves.

Intuition is perception via the unconscious that brings forth ideas, images, new possibilities and ways out of blocked situations.

I feel like you're not a real musician or entertainer if you can't go into a room, pick up an instrument and entertain people.

I pay attention to how I look but I don't let it go too far.

[Marco] Rubio, I've never seen a young guy sweat that much. I've never seen - he's drinking water, water, water, I never saw anything like this with him and the water.

If I fall and break my neck, will you say something nice at my funeral?" "Like 'Kyler was usually more graceful?

I love to dance.I've been told I'm actually really good.

Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.

I've learned that one thing about my life that is certain is trouble.