You need unstoppable people. You want people that are just going to get it done.

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.

All great men endure tribulations, to achieve their goals.

I'm always looking to the future and what will next be on the horizon.

she’s mad, but she’s magic.

The atheist has no hope.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

People lie for lots of reasons, often because it seems like a way to get what they want with less effort.

The more respect I had for myself, and the more I took care of myself, the more I understood what I needed out of a partner.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Everybody has anger or regret in them one way or another. They all try different things to get it out. Some people go to psychiatrists. Some paint pictures. Some people talk it out.

All writers should strive to deliver something fresh-something editors or readers won't know they want until they see it.