Ideas by themselves are not worth anything, only executing well is what creates value.

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 vivid force of his mind prevailed, and he fared forth far beyond the flaming ramparts of the heavens and traversed the boundless universe in thought and mind.

The truest knowledge is to know thy Creator and thy self.

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people

He who can endure the worst can withstand any thing.

Corrupt governments are run by corrupt politicians that run corrupt law enforcement agencies.

Behind every smile there's teeth.

We make our own world by the way in which we think; for we really do live in a world of our own thoughts.

Above all things I believe in love.

The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips.

Where am I? Who am I? How did I come to be here? What is this thing called the world?