The other piece besides focus for execution is intensity. Startups only work at a fairly intense level.

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.

I want to make a memorial for our turkey. Never has a bird been so tortured to provide such a lousy dinner.

All great art is born of the metropolis.

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography.

I am going in there to win this fight. I don't think people are taking me seriously. I'm gonna surprise a lot of people. This guy helped two people make history.

I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express." - Jane Eyre

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them.

Giving to other people makes me feel alive. Not my car or my house. Not what I look like in the mirror. When I give my time, when I can make someone smile after they were feeling sad.

I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.

The god we now behold with opened eyes, A herd of spotted panthers round him lies In glaring forms; the grapy clusters spread On his fair brows, and dangle on his head.