It takes years and years, usually a decade, to create a great startup.

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.

Begin to dream.

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah, ” said the voice from under the table, “you go to pieces so fast people get hit by the shrapnel.

Pain will never lessen without forgiveness, it will only manifest as anger and harden into resentment or bitterness.

Wouldn't it be great to be gifted? In fact... It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You're not born this way, you get this way.

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Honest unaffected distrust of human abilities under all circumstances is the surest sign of strength of mind.

It is the illusion of all lovers to think themselves unique and their words immortal.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

[Making music] only turned into this weird job in the last year or so. Once I figured that out, I was having a blast.

Every great, successful person I know shares the capacity to remain centered, clear, and powerful in the midst of emotional 'storms'.