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

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

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.

Startup CEOs should not play the odds. When you are building a company, you must believe there is an answer and you cannot pay attention to your odds of finding it. You just have to find it. It matters not whether your chances are nine in ten or one in a thousand; your task is the same.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

In Silicon Valley, when you're a private company, the entrepreneur can do no wrong.

One of the great things about building a tech company is the amazing people that you can hire.