Fear of failure falls away in the face of death.

It's very simple: The more successful you are, the more you'll earn. But if you're not successful, you will not earn a dime.

When you're doing something for yourself, or your best friend or family, you're not going to cheese out. If you don't love something, you're not going to go the extra mile, work the extra weekend, challenge the status quo as much.

Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview.

When you're a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you're not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You'll know it's there, so you're going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back.

We just wanted to build the best thing we could build

A lot of time, people don't do great things becoz' great things really aren't expected of them.