Solve a real problem. You don't start a company because you want to be an entrepreneur or the fame and glory that comes along with it. You become an entrepreneur to solve a real problem.

Solve a real problem and the world is yours.

Observe the world around you everything you do, and especially everything you hate to do.

It's okay to doubt yourself, it's okay to feel down; just never give up.

When valuing a startup, add $500k for every engineer, and subtract $250k for every MBA.

People do make judgments of trust on appearance - in the real world and online.

Tell anyone and everyone your idea without fear they're going to steal it.

Recessions are great because they unlock the best people.

We all are characters in a movie.

Motivation is Power, Power is Motivation

Now there was no sign of any foul weather, but when one wishes to do a thing . . . one finds no lack of reasons for the doing.

Status: the perpetual carrot that entices us from the front and prods us in the back.

Some people say my humor focuses too much on stereotypes. It doesn't. It focuses on facts.

I should like [people] to like the purely individual thing in themselves, which makes them act in singleness. and They only like to do the collective thing.

We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

But the reasonableness of this command to obey parents, is clear, and easily understood by children, even when quite young.

Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.

When in doubt, freak 'em out.