You want an idea that not many other people are working on, and it's okay if it doesn't sound big at first.

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.

Share yourself with me. I will never judge you. I am here and I will stay here only to love you.

We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

What is research but a blind date with knowledge?

Not to sound arrogant, but what I did in one year, others couldn't do in their entire collegiate careers.

As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.

However, I do firmly believe in maintaining the integrity of the animal.

I'm a genius. I'm like Prince.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.