In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

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.

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

The thing that's confusing for investors is that founders don't know how to be CEO. I didn't know how to do the job when I was a CEO. Founder CEOs don't know how to be CEOs, but it doesn't mean they can't learn. The question is... can the founder learn that job and can they tolerate all mistakes they will make doing it?

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

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

The person they're working with, is going to be the person they'll know more. So if that person leaves, they're going to go - well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.