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

It's only a little difficult to say no. You've got to believe that the work you're doing is ultimately more useful to the world.

Repeated psychology tests have proven that telling someone your goal makes it less likely to happen.

Don't be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams.

When you make a company, you make a utopia. It's where you design your perfect world.

The most important lesson is probably to spend less than you earn.

Go find very early versions of things: the first TV pilot of a later-successful TV show; early audition tapes by famous actors; early demos by famous musicians. Focus on these early examples, not what they became over the next 20 years. Remember that what you're doing will constantly improve.