Momentum and growth are the lifeblood of startups. This is probably in the top three secrets of executing well.

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.

You’ll only fall if you doubt your balance.

You make me feel like I am everywhere when I am right here, completely still with you.

We often agree with the devil’s lies and support his opinion about us by our actions

Know how to choose. Most things in life depend on it. You need good taste and an upright judgement

It was easier to tell a hero from villain when the stakes were only life or death. Everything in between gets harder.

The reason the pro tells you to keep your head down is so you can't see him laughing.

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

I do think Austin is a great town for writers; we have a lot of them here. But I grew up in Austin, and so I didn't move here because it was a creative mecca; I was just lucky to live here.

Thus through half-belief, we are often doomed to repeat that very past we should have learned from.

I think the ethics and morals of genetic engineering are very complicated. It intrigues me.