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.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.

To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.

It's hard in daily life. It's even harder in management because it's the stress of the moment.

Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.