If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

In entrepreneurship, you decide to give up your day job at the point where either (A) the hobby/new business is at least making some form of ends meet, or (B) you feel that you need to dedicate yourself for a certain amount of time to it and give yourself the last hoorah.

I don't want to leave my kids an inheritance, I want to leave them a legacy

When you have a large amount of the workforce being laid off, some of them have no other choice but to go out there and invent something.

The only thing that scares me in the tech area is that it moves so fast that you have to be ready to invest in 20 things. Because if you just invest in one, next week, somebody has a better mousetrap, and you get taken to the cleaners.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.