So if you want a culture where people work hard, & pay attention to detail, focus on the customer, are frugal: you have to do it yourself.

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.

A bud has to bloom to unfold her beauty. A child has to become educated to unfold her incredible potential.

Opportunity and risk come in pairs

Killing of an innocent, alike killing of humanity.

We got a saying around here about our corn, ‘it grows knee-high by the Fourth of July.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

I've got a long way to go to being the ultimate best, but I think my time is now. And I'm starting to enter my prime.

Complete happiness lies in obedience to Allāh, and anguish is found in disobedience to Him and opposition against Him.

I want to be a champion.

Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.

I've never believed it's really so important that you conform to the ways of the system in order to beat the system. I think that the system follows a great deal.