Where there are low consequences and you have very low confidence in your own opinion, you should absolutely delegate.

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.

Concepts are not real things

It doesn't get any easier. You have to stay close to the people you trust so they can put you back together again.

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

Money has no country.

Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.

One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

It's very odd to observe someone else taking your identity into their own hands and getting it all wrong. I don't think most people will ever get to experience how truly weird it is.

I love to be creative.

Origami Striptease reads like William S. Burroughs and Djuna Barnes howling at a brutal paper moon.

I'm always disappointed after an audition when I don't get a part and I hear, "Oh, she was too X, or too Y," and it's too much of a quality.