I think as a rough estimate, you should aim to give about 10% of the company to the first 10 employees.

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.

Pain is a more terrible lord of mankind than even death itself.

We shall have our manhood. We shall have it or the earth will be leveled by our attempts to gain it.

I am convinced, that when a man tells a woman he loves her, he only means that he desires her; and that the only total love in this world is that of a father for his son.

The farce is finished. I go to seek a vast perhaps.

Actually everyting is right, even the errors.

Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it.

Opportunity seldom come along and knock you on the Head.

The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.

Probably what pushed the Russians over the edge was SDI... They realized they couldn't beat us...

Don't pursue a heart that you're not ready to be loyal to.