The cost of getting an early hire wrong is really high.

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.

God knows the motive of every man.

We must protect and share the world.

Freedom cannot recognize as law the commands and doctrines of other human beings.

Chancellor Angela Merkel and Wolfgang Schaeuble, her finance minister, are right to oppose fiscal and bank unions without political union.

I have had a long, long life full of troubles, but there is one curious fact about them-nine-tenths of them never happened.

I've done a lot of talk shows where you can tell that the host is just thinking about what he wants to say next while you're answering him and that's really uncomfortable.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.

By suprematism I mean the supremacy of pure feeling in creative art.

God is our name for the last generalization to which we can arrive.

I did not want to be anything, and naturally I did not want to turn myself into a mere profession: all I ever wanted was to be myself.