The natural state of a start-up is to die; most start-ups require multiple miracles in their early days to escape this fate.

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.

Poetry is prose in slow motion.

True love always brings joy to ourself and to the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us it is not true love.

When I first became an actress, I expected to do regional and classical theater; I just love the whole creative process.

California is lucky, the East Coast is lucky because we get great seafood and a lot of produce from Florida, locally in good weather, but in the winter we have to buy it.

Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane.

In the end we love our desire and not what it is that we desire.

We all use the future to escape the present.

In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.

Men have better self-images than women. You know what I've never seen in a men's magazine? A makeover.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls