If you pivot, do it fully and with conviction. The worst thing is to try to do a bit of the old and the new-it's hard to kill your babies.

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.

It’s not about being ready or feeling prepared all the time

Whenever there is a break up, it's usually not the fault of just one party. Both are usually at fault

It is a mistake to confound strangeness with mystery.

My own personal favorite Cher song is the unforgettable Gypsies, Tramps and Thieves.

I have always felt a little held back by working with other people in recording.

A champion shows who he is by what he does when he's tested. When a person gets up and says 'I can still do it', he's a champion.

For truth is strong next to the Almighty. She needs no policies or stratagems or licensings to make her victorious. These are the shifts and the defences that error uses against her power.

You let the energy go wherever it wants. I have such a rich spiritual life. Most people take drugs to experience that.

When I teach people, I marry them.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.