You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.

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.

When our sensitivity to feel pain decreases, so does our sensitivity to feel joy with it.

When you are rich, your past disappears. You get everything you want when you want it . . . Everyone wants to know you. Everyone wants to be your friend.

A recurring problem needs nothing but a tactical head-on solution. The more you entertain your problems, the more your entertain unhappiness!

If you're in a good profession it's hard to get bored because you're never finished-there will always be work you haven't done.

A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

Ignorance is not an extension of time

Modern art to me is nothing more than the expression of contemporary aims of the age that we're living in.

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

Beethoven suppressed everything, his personal life disappeared until he was locked inside. That is a figure quite extreme.

A man--be the heavens ever praised!--is sufficient for himself.