The role of the board is advice and consent. If the CEO does not lay out a clear strategy and tries to get the board to set one, it will usually end in 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.

Every day, I want to sleep in your arms and wake up by your side in the mornings.

Love a girl and she will give you a story to tell, Love a woman and she will give you a novel to pen...

Only when one is connected to one's own core is one connected to others, I am beginning to discover. And, for me, the core, the inner spring, can best be refound through solitude.

Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed.

Robespierre, this pedant of freedom!

My husband is not a Christian but is a religious man, I think.

If there is anything you can do, it may just be to smile for them. Because when you smile, the world seems just a little kinder. For you to just be yourself is a very important thing, I think.

All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether

A symptom of the revolution: When we state something is impossible in theory, but then change our minds when we discover that it is possible in practice.

Do not try to paint the grandiose thing. Paint the commonplace so that it will be distinguished.