Startups live at the intersection of existential crisis and everything going perfectly great.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.

Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today.

My workday begins around 11 A.M., with a cup of black coffee in each hand. If I had more hands, there would be more coffee.

The product that wins is the one that bridges customers to the future, not the one that requires a giant leap.

Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

I think people are always able to achieve more than they think they can. While that’s cliche, I don’t know if managers think about that enough. You have to set your sights extremely high.

Companies have never won. You're always either fighting for survival, or fighting for relevance.

I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

The last thing she wanted was to see her friend getting ideas in her head. There was such a lot of room in there for them to bounce around and do damage.

A little house well filled a little land well tilled and a little wife well willed are great riches.

I can only ask of those who care about me and the issues in my case to support me and spread the word about what is going on.

We are turning our prisons into living tombs, inhabited by doomed men living in everlasting blank despair.

If I wanted to contribute to the hyphy movement, what good is it making a hyphy record that isn't embraced by that community?

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Sometimes we have to hit bottom before we figure out how to really enjoy life.

The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.

The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.

The Poplar grows up straight and tall, The Pear-tree spreads along the wall