By the way, that's my number one piece of advice if you're going to join a startup: pick a rocket ship.

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.

Listen to yourself and you are heard.

France had shown a light to all men, preached a Gospel, all men's good; Celtic Demos rose a Demon, shriek'd and slaked the light with blood.

I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.

Only in dreams of spring Shall I ever see again The flowering of my cherry trees.

Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.

Love is something that we don't control. We have to be ourselves. You can be sexual, nonsexual, asexual, bisexual, or trisexual and it really doesn't have a lot to do with enlightenment.

We will be thankful and grateful. Not even the last thing that is done for us shall be forgotten.

There's no good guys and bad guys.

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Look around and find something for which to be grateful.