You want to sound crazy, but you want to actually be right.

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.

Animals are what we are and animals are what we'll stay.

People ask me what I am politically and I've previously offered this equation: I became a conservative by being around liberals. And I became a libertarian after being around conservatives.

The old harlot, German philosophy, has finally turned into a church lady.

Care Immensely or Die: This is a bigger culture shift than you realize.

I've bought more music for my Ipod in one year than I bought in the last ten years of my life.

I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can't get my wife to go swimming.

The only certainties in life are death and taxes.

I'm quite claustrophobic, and I don't like everyone crowding around and shouting the same questions.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.