Obsess about the quality of the product.

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.

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.

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

Your mornings are very powerful. Be careful with them.

You strip away every ounce of civility in me, Selene” - Levi

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Any gastronome who is not an environmentalist is stupid, and any environmentalist who is not a gastronome is sad.

My guitars, Cadillacs, and hillbilly music Is the only thing that keeps me hanging on.

Hip hop has evolved, thankfully. Kids are making music that is important to their lives and outlooks.

The end was contained in the beginning.

I love independent films, it's the only place as an actor you're totally allowed to breathe.

Just one time before I turn into the villain of this piece, just one time before I become the fourth and final Unseelie prince, I want to be her Highlander. And her hero.

People are grateful when you make a difference in their lives. That is the essence of any successful business