Whatever the founder cares about, whatever the founders think are the key goals, that's going to be what the whole company focusses on.

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.

The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

It is the most horrific thought—my husband died among strangers.

If I was getting harder, it was in response to the world around me.

Basically, what I'm saying is there is nothing fake about what I do. I'm up-front, I'm real, I'm honest and I'm open with my feelings.

I literally and truly don't care how many points I score. I get far more satisfaction out of doing the other things that make us winners.

Where the soul is full of peace and joy, outward surrounding and circumstances are of comparatively little account.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you.