One thing that founders forget is that after they hire employees, they have to retain them.

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 must know the purpose of your life and reach it confidently

Doctor, I appreciate your diagnosis, but I will not accept your verdict

Change leads to growth. Resistance leads to rigidity. Rigidity leads to ...

He who has a mind has thoughts and he who has thoughts has vision! Think vision. Produce vision!

America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America.

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

I don't need a "reason" to be happy. I don't have to consult the future to know how happy I feel now.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

Control, edit and distill.