Experience matters for some roles and not others.

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 as if you are living just to love. Live as if your life depends on love.

Believe in love. Believe in magic. Hell, believe in Santa Clause. Believe in others. Believe in yourself. Believe in your dreams. If you don’t, who will?

Meeting a vampire is kind of like a celebrity sighting, but where the celebrity possibly wants to kill you.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People want to get something for nothing.

Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar.

All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.

Hypocrites weep, and you cannot tell their tears from those of saints; but no bad man ever laughed sweetly yet.

Artists are mystics rather than rationalists. They leap to conclusions that logic cannot reach.

The wisdom of the years is confusing. Only the wisdom of eternity is edifying.