If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Conscious faith is freedom. Emotional faith is slavery. Mechanical faith is foolishness.

It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.

A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.

The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.

I come alive in the night time

I would say act like a man of thought and think like a man of action.

This country was the moral leader of the world until George Bush became president.

I was much more interested in making things than in designing them.

Every day you're alive and someone loves you is a miracle.

It's exciting to watch people do and write and say what they feel like doing, writing and saying.