You only get points when you make something the market wants. So if you work really hard on the wrong things, no one will care.

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 do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

Learning how to learn involves examining assumptions. Mulla Nasrudin tales very often fulfil this funcition.

Our Heavenly Father did not put us on earth to fail but to succeed gloriously.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

The man who believes in giraffes would swallow anything.

It is impossible to build enduring institutions without solid values. For us, the fundamental value is that associated with democracy.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

Write what you love. Love will hold you through the hard times and hold the world during the good times.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.