... if you talk to say any of the first 40 or 50 employees, they all feel like they were a part of the founding of the company.

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.

Be positive, be happy and be thankful.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so -bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years men will still say "This was their finest hour."

To be a lone filmmaker thousands of miles from home with nobody believing in me, that seems romantic.

Since everything is already the Supreme Buddha Nature, where are you going to find it?

Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.

I'm a family man. I just love being around my family.

I am not who I was,' he whispered, gripping the edges of the column, 'but I know who I am.'... 'And I won't give up.

I want you to stay. I never want there to be a time when we don't share space.

I think of spirit as that which evokes us - the lure of becoming that keeps calling. And I think of soul as that which gets us through the cartography of everyday life.

That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.