If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

I have a broad range of interests, so I'll always be working on something.

I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it?

I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

Sometimes Plan B can have the same desired outcome, but a different path for getting there.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That's luck. That's randomness.