Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

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.

I challenge you to find a more innocuous sentence containing the words sperm, suction, swallow, and any homophone of seaman. And then call me up on the homophone and read it to me.

Let your actions be the answer to criticism.

Hey, Colt Cabana, how you doing?

President Obama should stop campaigning and start working on creating jobs, start working on getting our GDP up, start working on strengthening our borders.

There are enough high hurdles to climb, as one travels through life, without having to scale artificial barriers created by law or silly regulations.

If you had one word to describe the root of all this rage, it's humiliation.

I'm trying to teach people how to live their everyday lives, and so I do focus on it, probably not as much as some people would like.

There is a time of reckoning in all our lives.

My favorite player is Tiger Woods. I think I can beat Tiger when I'm 20. It's a life goal.

Wrong is but falsehood put in practice.