In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

Volatility and length, that's the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that's a big valuable thing.

I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

When you're making a critical decision, you have to understand how it's going to be interpreted from all points of view. Not just your point of view, not just the person you're talking to, but the people that aren't in the room. Everybody else.