Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

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.

Have you noticed we can breathe in here too?Gosh, I wouldn't have picked up on that.

A pro is someone who can do great work when he doesn't feel like it.

Gratitude, not understanding, is the secret to joy and equanimity.

Remember tonight...for it's the beginning of forever. - Dante Alighieri

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

You're worth something because God says you're worth something-not because of what people think or say about you.

It's all up to you, girls. You have to be strong. These are the days of post-women's liberation. You have grown up by now and you have to take care of yourself. No one's going to help you.

An entomologist is not a bug.

We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

All the reading she had done had given her a view of life that they had never seen.