We pretty much won't fund a company now where the founders don't have vested equity because it's just that hard to do.

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.

What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us? (Romans 8:31 NIV)

If one wishes to elicit a reaction from the elusive species known as 'reservus quietgirlius, ' one must poke.

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem.

People are afraid of change. We all are. Human beings are afraid of change, but change can be good.

My dream job has already happened.

The fullness of life comes from an identity built on giving and on joy.

The car emitted on last gasp and rolled to a stop, in the middle of the Altlantic Ocean. "We're here," Leven tried to joke.

A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.

I bear a charmed life, which must not yield To one of woman born.