Just put a little pin in your mind: when you cross 50 employees, there are a new set of HR rules that you have to comply with.

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.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

The herd instinct seems to be the strongest human emotion, one that the race is constantly breeding off as the mavericks are liquidated. Happiness is running with the crowd.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

My job is what millions of people do for recreation. How can you not like that?

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

In the poor and outcast we see Christ’s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ.

I think the Macintosh was created by a group of people who felt that ah there wasn't a strict vision between sort of science and art.