If you compromise and hire someone mediocre you will always regret it.

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.

Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

A loving heart is the source of all happiness, all joy and all bliss.

No!You cant get this close to me and then push me away.

Technology and Science is what you make it.

If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.

I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

Being an artist, I had an artist's instincts.You can see the picture before it's taken; then it's up to you to get the camera to see

Gods have bloody hands.

No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.

All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.