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.

No matter what you choose, build stuff and be around smart people.

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 prefer to invest in a company that's going after a small but rapidly growing market than a big but slow growing one.

When you think about such fine actors as Maggie Smith or Michael Gambon, they do all mediums. I think it would be quite sad and a bit dull just to have to stick to one. I like all of them.

I don't think any country can survive as a prosperous and dignified country unless there is rule of law.

We do not come to God as bad people trying to become good people; we come as rebels to lay down our arms.

You should turn around at the end of the day and say I really like that piece of work, or that piece of work sucked. Not, was that popular or wasn't it popular?

The only quality that endures in art is a personal vision of the world. Methods are transient: personality is enduring.

I took the red dress down and put it against myself. 'Does it make me look intemperate and unchaste?' I said.

To write about a place, you have to live there.

Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

In short, I'm pretty suspicious of the idea that there's a real and true and authentic world, and then a bunch of false ones.

Music can take you back in time to that place when you first fell in love and really haunt you.