Growth solves (nearly) all problems

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.

Laziness bears the fruit of hunger and crimes, and those who choose the right path are those willing to pay the price

...it is hard to throw off long-established love:hard, but this you must managed somehow

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

I'm a filmmaker who is known for these ambiguous portraits that tell multiple sides of the story without really telling the audience what to think.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

I know I'm good. I know I got game.

It's essential for a president to show strength from the very beginning, to make it very clear what is acceptable and not acceptable.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

Sometimes I think of myself as a little bee. I go from one area of the studio to another and gather pollen and sort of stimulate everybody. I guess that’s the job I do.

Agonies are one of my changes of garments.