You think you have this great idea that everyone's going to come join, but that's not how it works.

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.

Time does not create changes, wisdom does. Your wisdom decides the quality of your decisions.

She crossed her legs and kicked out her feet, clad in thick wool socks and boots big enough to house a little old lady.

Is is seldom possible to say of the medievals that they *always* did one thing and *never* another

It is easier to love people than to talk to them.

If I might ask--," she began. Will sighed. "You know you'll ask whether I say it's all right or not.

I normally can't stand vice-free people. They conflate a narcissistic instinct for self-preservation with moral superiority. Plus, they suck the life right out of a party.

What a mighty spirit in a narrow bosom. [Ger., Welch' hoher Geist in einer engen Brust.]

A statue stands in a shaded place An angel girl with an upturned face A name is written on a polished rock A broken heart that the world forgot

New York is really the place to be; to go to New York, you're going to the center of the world, the lion's den.