You cannot create a market that doesn't want to exist.

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.

The Bible teaches that money is one of the fruits of being prosperous, but it is certainly not the root.

Though the customer is always right, there are some customers you do not want.

My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

Speaking as a minister it is my strong feeling that no man has a right to preach to a crowd that he has not prayed for.

Many of America's historical cornbreads were staple breads for people who didn't have many other options.

Encores! is, to me, a wonderful, warm, welcoming place, and I hope it always will be.

A liar is full of oaths.

Easy writings curse is hard reading.

She seemed imprisoned in her sadness.

Simply by changing your habitual vocabulary, you can instantaneously change how you think, how you feel, and how you live.