A fool and his money will soon be departed applies equally to venture capitalists as it does to everyone else.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

If you're not working on your best idea right now, you're doing it wrong.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

It took me some twenty-plus years to really learn how to program.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Nobody is an overnight success. Most overnight successes you see have been working at it for ten years.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

Secret to productivity is not finding more time to do more stuff, but finding the strength to do less of the stuff that doesnt need doing.

- David Heinemeier Hansson

If you can't figure out how to make money on three billion in revenue, when exactly will the profit magic be found? Ten billion? Fifty billion?

- David Heinemeier Hansson