The startups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.

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.

People tend to suppress that which they cannot express.

Criticism is no threat to your self-esteem or identity, but rather informs you.

The mark of a top player is not how much he wins when he is winning but how he handles his losses.

Above all things expand the frontiers of science: without this the rest counts for nothing.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people.

When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild.