You want to think about what is the path for my first 10 or 15 employees going to be as the company grows.

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.

Dream without fear love without limits.

Now, as we close one chapter, the pen is gradually inking up, preparing itself to write the next.

Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.

Spending time with math people is a lot of fun. As a result of the play, I've had semi-drunken dinners with mathematicians all over the country. I recommend the experience.

You turn hotdogs with tongs. Don't you ever use those tongs on a hamburger.

Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

Keep your eyes on the Master, because He knows things we do not know!

Be careful what you do, because the lie becomes the truth.

Do not betray the people.

what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes