If someone is getting every decision wrong, that's when you need to act, and at that point it'll be painfully aware to everyone.

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.

Order is heaven's first law.

Expand and extend yourself to effectively fulfill purpose

That our affections kill us not, nor dye.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

People tend to think that because I'm a performer and I don't go to a regular high school that I haven't personally been affected by bullies. But it's actually quite the contrary.

I listen to nothing or classical music just because after being in the studio for twelve hours, the last thing you want to do is listen to anything.

I want to collaborate with me 'cause I've done so many collaborations that after a certain point unless you're really working with a certain caliber of an artist, there's no point [to collaborate].

Everybody I knew, practically, was a journalist when I was a kid - my father, all of his friends. I never wanted to be like those people.

The Internet is a bastion of negativity, and we get to sit there and voice our cute, little, important opinions.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.