If you completely ignored your goals and focused only on your system, would you still succeed?

Man is not fully conditioned and determined but rather determines himself whether he gives in to conditions or stands up to them. In other words, man is ultimately self-determining.

The reason why VCs want large option pools is to decrease as much as possible their own dilution.

Whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

There are two features of real friendship—constancy and transparency. Real friends always let you in, and they never let you down.

They supply a set of checks to ensure the stupid but critical stuff is not overlooked, and they supply another set of checks to ensure people talk and coordinate and accept responsibility while nonetheless being left the power to manage the nuances and unpredictabilities the best they know how.

Beloved friend, you do not know what you could do if you would give yourself up to intercession.

Adopt a morning activation ritual.

The goal of creating learning milestones is not to make the decision easy; it is to make sure that there is relevant data in the room when it comes time to decide.

It is not enough to simply say , 'I love you.' Nor is it enough to give love to your spouse in the way to which you feel most accustomed. If you want to give a person $100, there are many ways to do so. Y ou can give it in cash or by check or in gold or in kind. Y ou can give it in dif ferent currencies. So you ask, 'In which form do you want the hundred dollars?' In the same way you learn to give your spouse love in the way he or she finds most emotionally valuable and powerful.