You want to continue to be run by great products, not process for it's own sake.

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 have been the last dream of my soul.

Authenticity is not an innate quality - that is, you are not born with it. Being an authentic leader is not something you can say about yourself; it must be attributed to you.

If we're not on them, they go back to their old ways.

Once you've been booked, people in Hollywood say, 'Oh he must be good.' All the while you're the same actor.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

You turn inward. There's nothing to distract you, so you begin to look at yourself.

The books are balanced in heaven, not here.

Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.

Art thou a friend to Roderick?

I don't go to clubs and throw money and pop bottles. That's not my thing, no disrespect.