Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

In life, everybody faces choices between doing what's popular, easy, and wrong vs. doing what's lonely, difficult, and right. These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.

When I was CEO, and I'd listen to music, a lot of people listen to music and you get inspiration from it. And a lot of things in hip hop are very instructive for being in business. Particularly, hip hop is a lot about business, and so it was very useful for me in any job.

Leadership is hard to train on.

You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.