Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

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

Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

Nothing motivates a great employee more than a mission that's so important that it supersedes everyone's personal ambition.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

Don't punk out and don't quit.

Every time you make the hard, correct decision you become a bit more courageous, and every time you make the easy, wrong decision you become a bit more cowardly. If you are CEO, these choices will lead to a courageous or cowardly company.