Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go!

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

He who laughs last laughs ... doesn't get it.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

But Christianity is an invention of sick brains: one could imagine nothing more senseless, nor any more indecent way of turning the idea of the Godhead into a mockery.

There are things which seem incredible to most men who have not studied Mathematics.

I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with.

You can never turn the clock back and, since we're talking about mental health, I would stress that.

The artist must prophesy not in the sense that he foretells things to come, but in the sense that he tells his audience, at the risk of their displeasure, the secrets of their own hearts

I'll come around to see you once in a while, or if I ever need a reason to smile, and spend the night if you think I should.