Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.

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.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.

Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.

I can't speak to how Michael [Douglas] approached it in terms of his process.

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

Once you open your heart, you will start to absorb many things that come from the source - from Tao itself.

Government is full of people who think they know what's best for others and can rationalize compelling them to accept it.

Getting kids moving is a key factor in tackling obesity and health problems among the young.

Shuttles in the rocking loom of history, the dark ships move, the dark ships move, their bright ironical names like jests of kindness on a murderer's mouth

I have a lot of supporters.