In general don't start a startup you're not willing to work on for ten years.

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.

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.

I prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

On I’ll pass, dragging my huge love behind me.On whatfeverish night, deliria-ridden, by what Goliaths was I begot – I, so bigand by no one needed?

We spend our lives in the attempt to capture memory forever

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

You can always tell when something is good, because the studio senses it has something good, and you can see them pour more and more resources into it. The promotion gets bigger and bigger.

If you let your hitting bother your defense, you are not going to be very good.

Tax reform and expanded trade are going to be so important to the economy of Illinois, particularly the 11th Congressional District, which is a major manufacturing and a major agricultural district.

A man of quality is never threatened by a woman of equality.

The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.

I regularly interact with officers over tea; it is part of my working style.

You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.