Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless

If you're going to devote the best years of your life to your work, have enough love for yourself and the world around you to work on something that matters to you deeply

Life is short, youth is finite, and opportunities endless. Have you found the intersection of your passion and the potential for world-shaping positive impact?

In general, good tools for staying in sync just haven't been built and made available to the world.

Meetings get a bad rap, and deservedly so - most are disorganized and distracted. But they can be a critical tool for getting your team on the same page.

When we think of work, we think of work as an act of service. We think of it as an act of love for humanity.

People spend an enormous amount of time in their inboxes, compulsively checking, and it's slow, distracting, and inefficient. It's almost a counterproductivity tool.

In a knowledge economy, natural selection favors organizations that can most effectively harness and coordinate collective intellectual energy and creative capacity.

We could go work on curing cancer. We could go work on building spaceships. We could go work on art projects. What's fun about working at Asana is we get to work on all of them at the same time.

Know when to email vs. when to meet. Logistics are best handled over a non-immediate communication channel like email or Asana tasks. Detailed status meetings will suck the life out of your day.

When leaders know how to lead great meetings, there's less time wasted and less frustration. We have more energy to do the work that matters, realize our full potential, and do great things.

Greatness is in simplicity and in kindness, like Mother Theresa.

I'm a great believer in the Arsene Wenger school of management - which is, you don't worry about the opposition, you just get your own act together.

I think that anytime you get clear about what your mission is or what your focus wants to be, things start to come together in your life.

Who can worry about a career? Have a life.

What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong that a little gladness may not transgress.

Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.

My view of actors is that basically they're all harmless lunatics who'd be on the psychiatrist's couch.

Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.

Reject every form of corruption.

The devil's characteristic has been to originate sin and tempt others to sin