You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.

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.

God ever works with those who work with will.

Compassionate people are geniuses in the art of living, more necessary to the dignity, security, and joy of humanity than the discoverers of knowledge.

The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

Kim Jong Un's sister got married. That sounds like another Seth Rogen movie, doesn't it?

All children need their fathers, but boys especially need fathers to teach them how to be men.

We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.

Discussion in America means dissent.

The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it.

Cannot Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' be subject to transposition: the evil of banality?

A good imitation is the most perfect originality