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

Early in my career as an engineer, I’d learned that all decisions were objective until the first line of code was written. After that, all decisions were emotional.

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.'

Leadership is hard to train on.

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.

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

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.