You also want people who are maniacally determined and that is slightly different than having a risk tolerant attitude.

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.

What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.

Sadness isn't a natural response.

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick.

A hair divides what is false and true.

The English are terribly lazy about fighting. They like to get it over and done with and then set up a game of cricket.