It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.

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.

When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.

You just wait.Soon, lovers all over the worldwill be reciting poems dedicated to you.This is my promise.

The set goal can release inner capacities and involve all human potential

Where logic reaches, religion leaves.

The ego is a fascinating monster.

I will miss the Batman. I like to think that he'll miss me, but he's never been particularly sentimental.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality.

The deadening part of Bible study is when you think you've already got it all figured out.

Some people find clarity threatening. They like muddle, confusion, obscurity. So when somebody does no more than speak clearly it sounds threatening.