Good startups usually take 10 years.

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.

You are the love and light the world needs to make it beautiful.

Good health is a holy blessing.

Missional leaders not only feel the burden of God's mission but they also act on the burden and act upon it sacrificially.

At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.

We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.

Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent.

Dig inside. Inside is the fountain of good, and it will forever flow, if you will forever dig.

It's hard not to fall in love with Seattle on a beautiful summer's day.