The track record for founders that don't already know each other is really bad.

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'm not suffering Trisha, I've never suffered all these years, someone long back taught me by example that its very easy to be content with one's solitude. I've enjoyed mine all these years.

Loving God and people sets us free from the it’s all about me syndrome

There have been only three epoch-making mathematicians, Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein.

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.

Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.

Were you to realize the forms minute and glorious, which invisibly play their parts in service around you, there could be no monotony - only a divine rapture of gratitude for such ministry.

I've got to be active in life, and it's the same when I'm doing stunts in a movie: I'll do anything.

If you don't love your work, it's hard to love your life.

Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.

The first myth of management is that it exists.