In addition to relentlessly resourceful, you want a tough and a calm cofounder.

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.

God is our refuge and our strength, an ever-present help in trouble.

God created man and then woman but the atheist created himself.

I dont want to be a point guard, or a two-guard, I want people to think of me as "creative", I just want to create on the court.

I think of these imperial adventures like welfare programs; you start them with all good intentions, they never end, they go on forever and get more expensive as they go on.

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad.

Ask yourself constantly, "What is the right thing to do?" Behave toward everyone as if receiving a great guest.

Hearts can break and never make a sound.

Sometimes the greatest deterrent to a great marriage is believing you have a perfect marriage.

I don't mind suffering as long as it's really about something. I don't mind great luck, if it's about something. If it's the hollow stuff, then there's no gift, one way or the other.

What makes me say "wow" continually changes. It changes based on what I know.