The way you give your name to others is a measure of how much you like and respect yourself.

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won.

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

I think the critical thing is the product or service that you're trying to raise money for. And probably the best description of that, people should say when they hear, "This is what I want to do. This is what I want to bring to the market." They should say, "Gee! That's a great idea" or "Gee! Why hasn't somebody else thought of that before? Well, that's an incredible idea!" In other words, the more a person is delighted, or astonished, or happy with your product, or service, or idea, the more happy they are to put up money for it.

The greatest joys of life are happy memories. Your job is to create as many of them as possible.

All the businesses from the beginning of history have struggled with product development (assuming there is a market, doing the market testing and so on). But now they start with customer development. Get the customer who says, "Yes. I want that. I need it. I wanna use it. I'll pay for it." And then you go back and work with your engineers. It is changing the world!