It really is true that you become an average of the people you spend the most time with.

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.

A rich life is lived from a giving heart not a selfish mind.

If you want to know the value of a month, ask a pregnant woman, if a month matters in her pregnancy.

One of the best uses of your time is to increase your competence in your key result areas.

I'm going to go out there and be who I am, and if you don't like it, then watch somebody else.

Only the tame birds have a longing. The wild ones fly

Let every one be fully convinced in his own mind.

Then how about we start with a shower," he said in the kind of deep voice that made her consider the value of cleanliness.

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

...[the federal] government [has no authority] to deliver a service,...and there's no evidence to show that government has ever been efficient [at] delivering...service.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.