Let’s never forget that whatever brilliant ideas you have or hear, that the opposite may also be true.

Obvious to you is amazing to others.

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

Business is not about money. It's about making dreams come true for others and for yourself.

Are you helping people? Are they happy? Are you happy? Are you profitable? Isn't that enough?

The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often.

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