Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.

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.

Art is the proper task of life.

The true philosopher is a man who says "All right, " and goes to sleep in his armchair.

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes?You focus on the really good ones!

As an actor, you are at the mercy of others for what role you can be seen for and then what you will be cast in.

Most of the people who call me a sellout were 7 when I was down face-first in the punk trenches.

United by their clasped hands, they became again the two halves, the light and the dark. The Destroyer and the Savior. A whole.

In my heart and soul, I always knew that I wanted to be in show business.

A faithful person is revealed by those who hate him or her. Are you hated for your faith or ethics? If nobody hates you, maybe you have not displayed Christ openly enough.

We suspect Dr. Clutterbuck's sense of hearing must be injured: for him the 'ear trumpet' magnifies but distorts sound, rendering it less distinct than before.