Wait to start a startup until you come up with an idea that you feel compelled to explore.

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.

Only the truth shall free us.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I have no God to hold me up. And I believe that when they shatter the body they shatter everything, and I knew that all of us—Christians, Muslims, atheists—lived in this fear of this truth.

Call me crazy for asking this, but, um, are Lissa and I going with you?""No""No?""No.

He looked exactly the same when he was alive, only he was vertical.

I say I am stronger than fear.

Coolidge believed that government officials who tell themselves that spending benefits the economy delude themselves and the citizens. Government budgets promote human freedom.

You might be a redneck if you've ever hauled a can of paint to the top of a water tower to defend your sister's honor.

In the beginning of college I wanted to be an English major, but then I became interested in international relations.

Procrastinatio n will delay your change!!! Today is a very good day to change; don't let YOU stop yourself from growing!