Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

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.

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.

What is addiction? Only those that have been kept secret

Politeness, delicacy [and] decency ... are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.

I know each conversation with a psychiatrist in the morning made me want to hang myself because I knew I could not strangle him.

You cant get a contemporary story about what is going on inside government, and how society sees itself, on American TV.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

One who breaks an unjust law that conscience tells him is unjust ... is in reality expressing the highest respect for law ... We will not obey your evil laws.

Not conceding a goal at home is always important in a Cup tie. But despite that there is no doubt that this tie is still wide open.

Hi, Mom. (Devyn) It’s the other parental unit. Not as pretty or as fierce as your mother, but loving nonetheless. (Syn)

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.