Competence is no longer scarce.

Trust is precious and easily wasted, and guessing is a lousy foundation for future progress.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

If you treat your employees like mushrooms (keep them in the dark and regularly throw crap on them), it's entirely likely you will get precisely the work you deserve in return.

Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn't be done.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again