I care much more about the growth rate of the market than it's current size and I also care if there's any reason it's going to top out.

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.

Some of us need to put down the megaphone and just grab a shovel. Little less talk and a lot more action.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

There aren't any embarrassing questions — just embarrassing answers.

I believe I am God's favorite comedian. I think he is a really big comedy writer. He writes scripts. And I just follow along.

There's time to slow down, after you're dead.

The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

I have always been a very passionate person. Some people are born with this fire burning inside to "do," or create, with an insatiable hunger for knowledge and experience, and I am no exception.

Culture is worth a little risk.

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.