Move fast. Speed is one of your main advantages over large companies.

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.

Sometimes we have spent so long in the cage that it feels safer to be trapped inside.

Do you think he's the murderer?""It's worse than that -- he's an actor!

All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.

People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.

You know something? I'm decent! There isn't a great deal of decency in the world, especially in our business, and I'm one of the few really decent ladies around.

I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.

Stuart must have sensed my despair from the way I began lightly banging my forehead on the table.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

Remember that being a success without happiness is meaningless.