... you can think about that for everyone you hire: will I bet the future of this company on this single hire? And that's a tough bar.

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.

Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of truth.

To pursue yourself is an interesting and absorbing thing to do. Once you have caught the scent of a hidden being your own hidden being you won't readily be deflected from the tracking down of it.

I don't care who scores the goals, I'm going to leave my human beingness on the field!

I'm trying to climb up both walls at once.

I was born 10 years old.

The most serious film can be the most fun. The one that's supposed to be fun can be the most serious.

Love is what you are, not what you give or get!

The memories you have are just recordings of things past, not chains to bind you.

Being called Angelina is like one of the worst things you could ever be called.