You need this sort of a tailwind to make a startup successful.

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.

Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate ways, maybe we want to speak up but we're afraid. All I know is this feeling isn't fading away.

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

Chips with every damn thing. You breed babies and you eat chips with everything.

I do that with all of my characters. They have one of the flaws I have, and I zero in on that flaw.

I actually am a phobic twitchy sort of nervous guy.

Don't see others doing better than you, beat your own records everyday, because success is a fight between you and yourself.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

There's a lot of difference between being well known and being notorious and the black paintings didn't make me well known - they made me notorious.

All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.