When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

It was the first follower that transformed the lone nut into a leader.

Make every decision—even decisions about whether to expand the business, raise money, or promote someone—according to what's best for your customers.

I love that sometimes we need to go to the opposite side of the world to realize assumptions that we didn't even know we had and realize that the opposite may also be true.

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

Pay close attention to when you're being the real you & when you're trying to impress an invisible jury.

Five years after I started CD Baby, when it was a big success, the media said I had revolutionized the music business. But 'revolution' is a term that people use only when you're successful. Before that, you're just a quirky person who does things differently.