Remember that you are more likely to die because you execute badly than get crushed by a competitor.

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.

The truth is now as it was yesterday, and as it always will be, that the world is-as we are

To attain wisdom, experience every thing consistently. To retain wisdom, dispose every thing constantly.

The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have - great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.

I love doing voice-over. It's so fun.

I believe that whoever is successful should help ensure that the next generation can be successful, too.

The 50s face was angry, the 60s face was well-fed, the 70s face was foxy. Perhaps it was the right expression: there was a lot to be wary about.

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Freedom exists for the sake of love.

Well, I'm not a crook.