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

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

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.

I'm just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

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.

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.