Some day everyone will find out everyone else's comp, if it's all over the place, it will be a complete meltdown disaster

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.

You need tell me nothing

Body tension will always be present if our good feeing is just ordinary, self-centered happiness. Joy has no tension in it, because joy accepts whatever is as it is.

All thinking people oppose terrorism both domestic & international but one should not be used to cover the other

What breaks your heart, what you really love, is the thing that will sustain you. That's what you ought to be doing.

The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a cloud.

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Tell me, do you think I'm going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.

...no place is more enchanted than where a unicorn has been born.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

I have examples of people who find their way back later on in life, in their 30's, 40's, it can happen in your 50's, I'm sure it can. It's not really a science. It's maybe more of an art.