One of the keys to focus, and why I said cofounders that aren't friends really struggle, is that you can't be focused without good communication.

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.

Prayer guards hearts and minds and causes God to bring peace out of chaos

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

Religion is a Snare and a Racket.

Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.

Eating healthy and exercising won't help you if it's only temporary.

To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.

A good education instills in you the intuitive comprehension - it becomes unconscious and reflexive - that you just don't think certain things, things that are threatening to power interests.

You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.

That sounded about as likely as Apophis and Ra becoming Facebook buddies, but I decided not to say anything.

You are who you surround yourself with. I know that's such a cliche quote, but it's true.