First mover Advantage doesn't go to the company that starts up, it goes to the company that scales up

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

Pleasures are the things that appeal to our flesh and to our lust. But joy is something else. Joy runs deep.

Time is self absorbed, takes what it wants and doesn't return the favor. It is greedy, its pockets full of the lives of those left behind. It is a magician and a thief.

No one is fearless. The difference between achievers and everyone else is that they take action despite their fears.

Listen to what you have written. A dud rhythm in a passage of dialogue may show that you don't yet understand the characters well enough to write in their vo

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

I'm pain in the spoken form; This new strain came from where hope is gone.

The claim that American women are downtrodden and unfairly treated is the fraud of the century.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

Around the outskirts of the city, cut off from town by the black oval of the river, everything was in darkness. Everyone ugly was in bed by now.