If you don't have a VP Finance on your team reporting to you, do yourself, your team, and your investors a favor and go hire one right now.

Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Building a startup community is not a zero-sum game in which there are winners and losers: if everyone engages, they and the entire community can all be winners.

Make sure the thing you are working on is something you love.

You can’t motivate people, you can only create a context in which people are motivated.

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

The only thing that we know about financial predictions of start-ups is that 100 percent of them are wrong

Computer science needs to be part of the core curriculum - like algebra, biology, physics, or chemistry. We need all schools to teach it, not just 10%.

I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

From pitch perspective, the more you wear your idea, the more it fits you and your comfortable with it, the easier it is for somebody like me to say tell me more.

There is no singular truth known to man. All that we know is but a fraction. Truth can only be seen in pieces.

To understand the language of love and peace, listen to the silence.

Dance for yourself. If someone understands, good. If not, no matter. Go right on doing what interests you, and do it until it stops interesting you.

The illusion that we are separate from one another is an optical delusion of our consciousness.

I do do a lot of talking, because it saves me listening.

For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.

Love is fun but, it is not going to pay the bills.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.

Only death does not lie.