Most of the best hires that I've made in my entire life have never done that thing before.

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.

Unfortunately, people who always tell the truth don't have many friends.

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

Compared to God, man is nothing; yet we are everything to God.

The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.

Man is dragged hither and thither, at one moment by the blind instincts of the forest, at the next by the strange intuitions of a higher self whose rationale he doubts and does not understand.

My motivation is tomorrow, just one day at a time, right?

Low self esteem involves imagining the worst that other people can think about you.

If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog.