Every thing at a startup gets modeled after the founders. Whatever the founders do becomes the culture.

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.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Nothing boosts confidence quite like simulating a disaster, engaging with it fully, both physically and intellectually, and realising you have the ability to work the problem.

I've come to realize that real growth of character takes place in the valleys of life.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

I think how you start the day many times determines what kind of day you're going to have.

I think we want to make the sport bigger and better and leave a good legacy for the next generation that comes through.

Like me or don't like me, I'm not going to adjust my behavior, just to gain a few more positive fans.

I knew I wanted to be a performer really early on, like around 8 years old. I did tons of acting and loved being in front of people.

Pain is only temporary. Quitting is forever!

Jude [Law] is really good at playing an obsessive. He has a very watchable quality when he's on a quest for something.