Most investors are obsessed with the market size today and they don't think about how the market is going to evolve.

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.

Being an actor is an extension of telling a story and I loved story telling as a child.

I don't have to believe in Feng Shui, I do it because it makes me money.

Your worst enemy Becomes your best friend, once he's underground.

He that lives in sin and looks for happiness hereafter is likehimthat soweth cockleand thinkstofill hisbarnwith wheat or barley.

Creativity is an unending exercise in uncertainty.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction.

The market economy as such does not respect political frontiers. Its field is the world.

Every record turns into whatever the listener gets out of it.

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative.

I have a better internal and intuitive understanding of folklore and myth than science and technology, so in that way fantasy is easier.