You should be giving out a lot of equity to your employees.

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.

hope for the best, prepare for the worst

As many ideas you can generate, encourage them to form nests in your mind, for one will surely liberate you.

To smile is to turn the lights on, the lights of existence within you!

To free a man from error is to give, not to take away. Knowledge that a thing is false is a truth. Error always does harm; sooner or later it will bring mischief to the man who harbors it.

The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings.

Oh, what a better way to express your love than a plasticbag full of air.

Any time you got nothing to do - and lots of time to do it - come on up.

Some coaches are on power trips. I've never needed somebody to tell me I'm not working hard enough.

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.

I can't play a character that I am judging.