You have to save the vision speeches for when the company is winning. When you're not winning, you just have to get momentum back.

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.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

It requires as much caution to tell the truth as to conceal it.

Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.

When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.

You live in the city? You live in the graveyard! You want to be resurrected? Apply to the nature!

When you get older, everybody sort of changes and moves away. I think that stands the test of time, when you have a friendship from youth that's still in your life today.

I can't paint the way they want me to paint and they know that too.

Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods?

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

I wasn't always this introverted.