In YC experience, 2 or 3 co-founders seems to be about perfect.

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.

What is important is not the specific manner in which God is worshiped but the degree to which the devotee is filled with love. (48-49)

Stop regretting relationships that once brought you great joy.

...learning always occurs in a context of taking action, and they value engagement and experience as the most effective strategies for deep learning.

He wasn’t looking for a soulmate. That would require having a soul to share, and he’d sold his off long ago

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility.

Difficulties in your life do not come to destroy you, but to help you realise your hidden potential and power, let difficulties know that you too are difficult.

We must always attempt to lift as we climb

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The World's an Inn, and Death the journey's end.

Playing Fagin in the play and film was a small miracle.