There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

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

There are no silver bullets.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

Mark [Andressen] was more popular than me at the time ... He was like Beyoncé, I was Kelly Rowlings

Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating