An organization filled with honest, motivated, connected, eager, learning, experimenting, ethical and driven people will always defeat the one that merely has talent. Every time.

Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead.

Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

To make a product, to market an idea, to come up with any problem you want to solve that doesn't have a constituency with an otaku, is almost impossible... There's a hot sauce otaku, but there's no mustard otaku.

If you want to dig a big hole, you need to stay in one place.

If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.

You can't have good ideas unless you're willing to generate a lot of bad ones.