If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards.

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 can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one’s own limitations.

I am sort of an adventurer. I like to explore new places. I don't get to travel as often as I would like but I love it.

Sometimes the pain outweighs the good things.

Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.

What right does a politician have to tell me what I can and cannot watch? Change the channel if you don't like what's on TV!

The teenager seems to have replaced the Communist as the appropriate target for public controversy and foreboding.

George Bush sold us on going to war with Iraq based on the threat of weapons of mass destruction. But we still haven't found them.

I'm not going to pretend that bad things don't happen. I just hope my daughter has enough understanding that when they do, just give me a call.

For what the lover would, that would the beloved; what she would ask of him that should he go before to grant. Without accord such as this, love is but a bond and a constraint.

Smooth white skin invites something that will leave a trace, a kiss or a slap.