AirBnB happened because Brian Chesky couldn't pay his rent, but did have some space.

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.

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

I feed my mind by reading everyday as I feed myself by eating every day.

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last.

The only way to ever truly get your confidence and swagger back, I've learned, is to fight for them.

I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

They don't hardly make 'em like him any more - but just to be on the safe side, he should be castrated anyway.

As weird and awful and terrible as it may seem to be yourself sometimes, it will always reward you.

My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, but whatever its authority, it doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them.

There is no "beginning" of feminism in the sense that there is no beginning to defiance in women.