Remember that the idea will expand, and become more ambitious as you go.

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.

Love means never saying goodbye.

Stupidity is not a crime.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

The spirit of a government must be that of the country. The form of a government must come from the makeup of the country. Government is nothing but the balance of the natural elements of a country.

I’m adding ‘canine’ to my searches,” I said. “And ‘instinct.’” “Whatever. I’m adding ‘lunatic.

Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

When I am not writing, I'm dying.

Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace.

The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers.