When lack of structure fails, it fails all at once. What works totally fine from 0-20 employees, is disastrous at 30.

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.

A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.", July 5, 1922]

Sometimes the truth stares us in the face, but we just choose not to look.

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

Megadeth doesn't sound anything like Metallica.

The biggest fish he ever caught were those that got away.

The world was conquered through the understanding of dogs; the world exists through the understanding of dogs.

I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy.

Your world could grow infinitely bigger if you were only willing to become...appropri ately small.

The Hunger Games has epic spectacle, yearning romance and suspense that won't quit!

I kind of live in this weird world where I am exposed to a lot of stuff, but then again I am not exposed to a lot of stuff.