If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

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.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

To live on the edge requires an exceptional ability to balance.

None so deaf as those that will not hear.

Smile. It instantly lifts the face, and it just lights up the room.

Here in England the welfare of the State depends on the conduct of our aristocracy.

To choose one sock from each of infinitely many pairs of socks requires the Axiom of Choice, but for shoes the Axiom is not needed.

I'm actually pretty good at tennis. Well, if I'm in the Special Olympics or something.

A job is how you make money. A career is how you make your mark. A calling is how you acknowledge a higher vision, whatever it may be.

Many people who excel are self-taught.

I think Tony Fucile, who did the illustrations [for Bink & Gollie], is an absolute genius. I've never met him.