There's at least a hundred times more people with great ideas than people that are willing to put in the effort to execute them well.

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.

You will never know what you are doing until and unless you have done it.

Love what you do!

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.

One of the things that makes God different from people is that God is always available to listen.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Knock, Knock." "Who's there?" "Olive." "Olive who?" "Olive...ooh. I love you, too," he said, figuring it out. "You can tell me that one anytime you like." He folded her into his arms.

One day, I'll stop making weird faces in pictures. But not today.

Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.

Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you.