The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

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

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.

Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

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

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.