You don't need to make the structure complicated, in fact you shouldn't. All you need is for every employee to know who their manager is.

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 read somewhere once that getting lost is the best way to find yourself.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

This is hard. This is fun.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes.

I'm John Kerry, and I'm reporting for duty.

Love is the only thing that keeps me sane.

Anti-Semitism is the rumour about the Jews.

If I was going to get beat up, I wanted to be indoors where it was warm.

The elephant smoked too much.(explaining why the keys of his piano were so yellow)