Usually when you hire more engineers, you actually don't get that much more done, you actually sometimes get less done.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

If somebody tells you ‘History will never forgive you, ’ just laugh at him! Because when the history comes, you won’t be here! The threat of history never forgives you is a useless threat!

The more you think, the less you imagine. The less you imagine, the less you create.

Setting our living standards and expectations based on the status of others is like wishing that apples were onions.

I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

The man who does his work, any work, conscientiously, must always be in one sense a great man.

Unity must be of the mind and heart, a sense of belonging together and of facing together those who attack it.

Between our two lives there is also the life of the cherry blossom.

Live and “love to be fascinated.

It makes it difficult to decide which to go see, since no film about say, some tragic genocide in Africa is going to get a bad review even if it's poorly made.