The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.

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.

To appreciate pleasure some had to experience pain

The forecast iswe kiss goodbye and never helloall kisses are then parting kisses

The Bronx? No Thonx!

The most optimistic part of life is its mortality… God is a real genius.

Atheist is really ʺa thoroughly honest, unambiguous term,ʺ it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear - cut issues and unambiguous speech.

Justice, not the majority, should rule.

Breathing is optional, but I need some air.

Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely.

Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.