It's become popular in recent years to say that the idea doesn't matter.

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.

Never be ashamed of your creativity. It simply shows everyone of how you can express your emotions through art

It isn’t easy when life tears away the one person in a million you thought you could always trust.

Hard work guarantees you nothing, but without it you don't stand a chance

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years old, 5 years beyond the alleged age of senility for theorists.

The poor old Duke [of Wellington]! What shall I say of him? To be sure he was born in Ireland, but being born in a stable does not make a man a horse.

I love this idea of the body as a trauma archive!

Television news is a delicate balance of serving public good and private gain.

The Parish makes the constable, and when the constable is made, he governs the Parish.

I didn't start making music in order to be famous.