Why couldn't it have been done 2 years ago, and why will 2 years in the future be too late?

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.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

If you don’t just want to live an ordinary life, then you will have to be intentional about converting all your time into that which you have been called to do.

But one discarded dreams and got dressed, and made what one could of the day.

There are 80 million moms in the United States. Forty million stay at home with their children.

We will have created a tremendous economic machine once again. To do that, we're taking back jobs.

I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.

I'm all in favor of the president tweeting.

The habits and language of clandestinity can intoxicate even its own practitioners.