In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

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

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

Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'

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

In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.

I was an executive running a pretty substantial group before becoming CEO, and I had no idea what it was like. When something goes wrong, people say, 'It's all your fault.' Your reaction is, 'It's not my fault.' But what do you mean? I was the founder, I hired everybody in the company, I was managing it.