... fire fast when it's not working. It's better for the company, it's also better for the employee.

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.

Weekends are life’s gift to those who hate their jobs.

And now I'm right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

When a man plants a tree, he plants himself.

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun.

The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.

I can't really see how anybody could be particularly optimistic about the future in general because we are destroying the planet.

Every theory is a self-fulfilling prophecy that orders experience into the framework it provides.

Facebook stock continues to plummet. People started selling once they found out their mom bought it too.

It is a good thing that women are so easily manipulated. Otherwise, most of us wouldn't be here.