The most important thing is that there is clear reporting structure and everyone knows what it is.

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.

Every day, you get the opportunity to change your life. Change what you do not want. Change what makes you unhappy.

Many of the mysteries of God—the heartaches, trials, disappointments, tragedies, and the silence of God in the midst of suffering—will be revealed in heaven.

If you think that political correctness is no big deal, just remember that the communists started by eliminating inconvenient people and ended by eliminating inconvenient people.

The prescription for better health care is more freedom to innovate, not remote-control surgery from Washington.

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair." — Anne Shirley

But know this, if you get killed out there I'm going to fire you.

My mandate...is to promote the protection, rights and welfare of children.

I've never had very high regard for therapists. I owe my health, my mental survival, to my friends and loved ones.

It may be normal, darling; but I'd rather be natural.