The company just needs to see you as like this maniacal execution machine.

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 essence of adversity is to show us the real brave people who can withstand it.

Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?

I am not worried about dying, what I am worried about is not living

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

I remember I was a scared rookie, hitting .220 after the first three months of my baseball season, and doubting my ability.

Our Sovereign's Health, the Majesty of the People.

Preventing radicalization that leads to violence here in America is part of our larger strategy to decisively defeat al Qaeda.

My attitude is, I am not a lawyer; I am not a doctor; I am not a scientist. I am a filmmaker and I want to present what each side is saying and let the viewer come to their own conclusion.

Nobody ever told me, I found out for myself, You gotta believe in foolish miracles, it's not how you play the game, it's if you win or lose, you can choose, don't confuse, win or lose.

Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never peril.