You have to let your team get all the credit for all the good stuff that happens, and you take responsibility for the bad stuff.

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 it comes to tyrants, dictators and terrorists, strength and the threat of force is the only language they understand.

When I became poet laureate, I was in a slightly uncomfortable position because I think a lot of poetry isn't worth reading.

My life is like a Harley Ride. When I'm on my bike that's really one of the places I feel completely at home.

I don't know if my looks will ever get any better, but my pratfalls sure won't.

Life is a game played on us while we are playing other games.

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it.

We don't come here for our health.

Who has passed by the fates of disillusion has died twice.

I am better at math than spelling.