You absolutely must have the discipline not to hire until you find the right people.

A great company will have many once-in-a-liftetime opportunities.

An organization is not truly great, if it cannot be great without you.

"Growth!" is not a Hedgehog Concept. Rather, if you have the right Hedgehog Concept and make decisions relentlessly consistent with it, you will create such momentum that your main problem will not be how to grow, but how not to grow too fast.

For, in the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.