M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.

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.

She had said that she preferred to be alone for so many years that it was now one of those things that equally well might or might not be true.

Every uncomfortable experience in life gives you the choice of growing bitter or better.

Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

You know sometimes football turns on the slightest biscuit of good fortune.

I think people have a tendency to read into more than there is.

Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!

Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

To live happily with other people one should ask of them only what they can give.

Tattoo on the lower back? Might as well be a bullseye.