You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

When you’re in school, every little mistake is a permanent crack in your windshield. But in the real world, if you’re not swerving around and hitting the guard rails every now and then, you’re not going fast enough. Your biggest risk isn’t failing; it’s getting too comfortable.

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.

You need that hunger no matter what, because eventually the honeymoon period wears off. Somewhere between printing your business cards that say 'founder' on them and everything else you have to do, you realize, 'Oh, actually this is a ton of work.'

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

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.

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