Surrounding yourself with inspiring people is now just as important as being talented or working hard.

The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.

I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.

Instead of trying to make your life perfect, give yourself the freedom to make it an adventure, and go ever upward.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.