If it works out, you're going to be working on this for 10 years.

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.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

You could say that Facebook is doing a far more effective job than religion at teaching us to 'love thy neighbor, ' connecting us with random strangers and 'friends' from distant lands.

Knowledge is exploding, so you need to commit yourself to a plan for lifelong learning.

I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No.

If it's not good, it's not the end.

Instead of talking yourself out of your future start talking yourself into it.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

What a world! Whether you're right or wrong, as long as you're strong, you're right.

Praise is deeper than the lips

The destination of the deportation is annihilation.