The biggest PR hack you can do, is not hire a PR firm.

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.

3 Types of People You Will Encounter. Those who:1) Promise and Deliver, 2) Under-promise and Over-deliver, 3) Over-promise and Under-deliver.

This is the word of the LORD saying, Not by Might, nor by Power, but by my Spirit, saith the LORD of hosts.

The brevity of our lives breeds a kind of temporal parochialism—an ignorance of or an indifference to those planetary gears which turn more slowly than our own.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Chess problems are the hymn-tunes of mathematics.

I find that those who voted for George W. Bush are less offended by his religious references, and those who voted for Bill Clinton did not seem offended at all when people prayed at his inauguration.

I have looked into most philosophical systems and I have seen that none will work without God.

I also want to encourage anybody who was affected by Hurricane Corina to make sure their children are in school.

I also met Dominique Sanda, who I always worshipped.

The worst thing you can try to do is to steer the story once it gets going. You just kind of follow along and see where it goes. That's the fun.