So always keep momentum, it's this prime directive for managing a startup.

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.

I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.

But Perfection never appealed to me.It's the beauty and honesty behind imperfections, that I fall in love with.

She was kahuna, creating more life around her than was actually there, heightening the momentousness of each living thing by simply gazing upon it.

In Japanese swordsmanship, it is not uncommon to speak of a unity of mind, body, and sword.

America has enough problems without allowing people to come in, who in many cases, or in some cases, are looking to do tremendous destruction.

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him.

I want to be remembered for making great music and doing great things for people.

No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny.

It is glorious to see such courage in one so young.

I'd rather play in the major leagues and have some bad games than play consistently good ball in the minors.