You never want to be in a place where an employee has vested 3 out of the 4 years of stock and they start thinking about leaving.

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.

Life is a beautiful dream to be cherished, as long as it lasts.

Honor, ” I said with a snort. “Honor has no place in survival.

And, believe me, if I were again beginning my studies, I should follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Of this alone, even god is deprived, the power of making things that are past never to have been.

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I'd be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I'd have lost two rivals after the first round. That's how I think. Idealisitic.

My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.

My customers are successful workingwomen.

Gifts are given, but fruit must be grown

Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.