Growth and momentum are what a startup lives on and you always have to focus on maintaining these.

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.

When is one considered to be in the awareness of ‘one’s own Self’? It is when all the desires become mild (when desires lessens).

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.

People would love to be rich, but they're looking for the easy way. Who wouldn't want to win the lottery? Just to score.

The difference between the child and the man lies chiefly in the unlimited confidence and buoyancy of youth.

Morality which is based on ideas, or on an ideal, is an unmitigated evil.

The faces people make when they are photographed and the face they have when you draw them are very different.

We must not be misled by the claim that the source of all wisdom is in the government.

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye.

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.