Here's a good rule of thumb: don't worry about a competitor at all, until they're actually beating you with a real shipped product.

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.

The fading light is us, and we are, for a moment so brief (...) beautiful.

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many years later, I watched HuffPost come alive

Your life only gets better when you get better, and you can improve yourself without limit. Learn something new every day.

In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward.

Nothing puts the dignity in personal dignity (or the freedom in personal freedom) like the self in self-rule.

Cruel people are ever cowards in emergency.

I wouldn't want to leave it so long before doing a play again, I get very stolid and sluggish if I do too much telly.

People who are always thinking of the feelings of others can be very destructive because they are hiding so much from themselves.

The poor are the human manure in which grow the harvests of life, the harvests of joy which the rich reap.

The emphasis placed by more and more companies on corporate social responsibility, symbolises the recognition that prosperity is best achieved in an inclusive society.