Developing a personal connection with anyone you're trying to do a big deal with is really important.

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.

Some books are so familiar that reading them is like being home again.

You never want to fail because you didn't work hard enough.

I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.

There is a just Latin axiom, that he who seeks a reason for everything subverts reason.

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

I love Twitter. It's like having a closet full of clever friends that you can visit twice a day, then shove back into the darkness when you're tired of them.

The starship thing is really political action and reaction, the natural outgrowth of Volunteers.

To be successful, we need everyone to think independently and work through disagreement to decide what's best.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord alright!

...it was more like bleeding than crying.