Leadership is hard to train on.

If you have never done the job, how do you know what to want?

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

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

It's pretty clear that [customers] know what their budgets are now, and what they want to spend it on.

I don’t believe in statistics. I believe in calculus.

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.