I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.

The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

Yeah, I became a successful entrepreneur... Eventually

The most important thing you can learn as CEO- one of the hardest things to do is, you have to discipline yourself to see your company... through the eyes of the people that you're working through. Through the eyes of the employees, through the eyes of your partners... through the eyes of the people who you're not talking to and who are not in the room.

There is no silver bullet. There are always options and the options have consequences.

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.