Workaholics don't actually accomplish more than nonworkaholics. They may claim to be perfectionists, but that just mean they're wasting time fixating on inconsequential details instead of moving on to the next task.

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

Facebook has been around for seven years. It has 500 million users. If you can't figure out how to make money off half a billion people in seven years, I'm going to go out on a limb and say you're unlikely to ever do.

Before you know it, you're half-way done with your idea and you've accidentally learned how to do it too. In short, you start with little bit of something real and make it tick. Then you make it tock.

A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.