You should be able to describe any employee as an animal at what they do.

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.

It sounded like walls tumbling, liberty bells chiming, government buildings being stormed.It sounded like a revolution.It sounded like hope.

Movement means freedom. That's what life's all about.

I am according to my slave's expectations of me: if good, then good, and if bad, then bad.

I don't watch a lot of TV, to be honest. With three kids I have my hands full.

People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

I didn't go to a conservatoire, and I have certain low opinions of certain aspects of the conservatory experience.

I think leadership is never singular. In a good organization, it's plural.

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)