Because so few people make an actual long term commitment to what they're building, the ones that do have a huge advantage.

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.

Love is total surrender, total acceptance and total commitment.

In the meantime, the first characteristic of a really revolutionary party is -- to be able to look reality in the face.

The love of a dog is a pure thing. He gives you a trust which is total. You must not betray it.

I do explicitly see Jewish people as a people - not either a religion or an ethnicity but a people.

Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage.

I would rather spend one night with Dracula dead than with my husband alive.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

Girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain, these unrealistic expectations...it's better to look strong and healthy...

Competition's always been a product of American lifestyle

You cannot solve a problem with the mind that created it. First you must change the mind.