While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

When you succeed you have a million people to thank, but when you fail there is only one person to blame.

It will never be a perfect time, you can only make time perfect.

If you don't educate yourself, you'll never get out of the starting block because you'll spend all your money making foolish decisions.

My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don’t be in such a hurry to grow your brand. Make sure that you and the market can sustain any bumps that may occur down the road.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.