I've been good at product entrepreneuring.

Not having a clear goal leads to death by a thousand compromises.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

Don't lose sight of user delight.

Get five or six of your smartest friends in a room and ask them to rate your idea.

You can manage 50 people through the strength of your personality and lack of sleep. You can touch them all in a week and make sure they're all pointed in the right direction.

The only way people will have the trust to give their all to their job is if they feel like their contribution is recognized and valued.

If you give people really big jobs to the point that they're scared, they have way more fun and they improve their game much faster.

I’ve grown a lot, and I’m learning every week.

I like to bet on people, especially those who have taken risks and failed in some way, because they have more real-world experience. And they’re humble.

We did anything possible just to get revenues so that we could grow and be a real business.

I find that...The bigger the ego.The bigger the mouth.The deeper the shallowness of a person.

I never said becoming the slayer would be a field trip to a Justin Bieber concert.

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.

This wasn't the first time that I'd come close to death, but it was the first time I'd been involved in this part of it, this strange, terrible saying goodbye to someone you've loved.

There comes no adventure but wears to our soul the shape of our everyday thoughts.

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

Be good to others, but don't expect a lot of gratitude in this world. Remember that good deeds are seldom remembered and bad deeds are seldom forgotten.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

For me, the greater purpose of the story is just to illuminate some pattern of human truth.