You can't be focussed without really great communication

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.

In a corner of my soul there hides a tiny frightened child, who is frightened by a corner where there lingers something wild.

You hate to cultivate the mindset that anything that is not a braced neutral spinal position is probably going to kill you.

There is no way to measure it ... because there's no one to measure it.

The underlying aim of practice . .is to create certainty through the development of high-quality listening.

Gas stations are considering hiring security guards. Why are they getting security guards? We're the ones getting robbed.

Cooking is one failure after another, and that's how you finally learn.

Bakery air is that steaming hot front of thick, buttery fumes waiting for you just inside the door of a bakery. And I am just going to tell you straight up: That is some fine air!

By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.

How does a country deal with the fact that some of its most revered historical figures had certain moral values and political views virtually identical to Nazis?

My motivation was I wanted to look like my favorite super heroes when I was a kid. Pretty cheesy, but that is what got me started.