You have to find a small market in which you can get a monopoly and then quickly expand.

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.

Perhaps, Howard thought, the curtains and murals and pastel angels are a mercy, a dim reflection of things fit for the fragility of human beings.

Men were primitive in the eyes of angel beingsas men are primitive in the eyes of wilier races.

Stories are the secret reservoir of values: change the stories individuals and nations live by and tell themselves, and you change the individuals and nations.

To close the eyes, and give a seemly comfort to the apparel of the dead, is poverty's holiest touch of nature.

It's my job to try to communicate with as little showiness as possible. I was a really showy actor as a young man.

Ps 119:89-91: The settled Word in Heaven makes for a solid foundation on earth and a safe path for today.

Im pretty shy when I go home because I was pretty shy growing up, and I think I go back to that person.

The state has typically been a device for producing affluence for a few at the expense of many.

The Tea Party ended up being a shill for corporate America.

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.