You should have a 1-on-1 roughly every 2 weeks.

The team you build is the company you build.

Any executive, any CEO should not have 1 management style. Your management style needs to be dictated by your employee.

Treat customer support as a product.

You really need to spend a lot of your time focussing people.

The key metric of whether you've succeeded is what fraction of your employees use that dashboard everyday.

Being a venture capitalist to me is like being more of a psychologist. So if you come to my office we have two chairs with a table in the middle. And we sit down and it's like, Tell me your problems.

So that's your job too, to clarify and simplify for everybody on your team. The more you simplify the better people will perform.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

Delegate completely. Let people make mistakes and learn.

The real thing you do is you ask a lot of questions.

You don't always need to know your destination when you set out on a journey.

Did he know she could barely think, let alone speak, for awareness of proximity of his fingers?Of course he knew. He was a rake. This is what he did.

She reeked of respectability and sophistication, and he went hard on a helpless surge of lust.

Peace the offspring is of Power.

I know he [Julian Assange] is a man of fierce determination, and now living under the strain of house arrest in the Ecuadorean embassy as a "political exile," as he calls himself.

Whatever one may say about the perils of workshops, they help writers internalize an awareness of audience.

You have to own your days and name them, each one of them, every one of them, or else the years go right by and none of them belong to you.

I am more or less reading all the time.

True prayer is not a prelude to inaction.

Do not think that years leave us and find us the same!