You'll get more support on a hard, important, project than a derivative one.

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.

You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.

A shot that goes in the cup is pure luck, but a shot to within two feet of the flag is skill.

Live your life like you're exactly who Jesus thinks you are.

I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.

Great stories move through fear.

I mistrust the satisfaction which makes a display of the possession of Infinity; that is called fatuity in philosophic terms.

I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.