The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Don’t pursue business just for your own gain. Only answer the calls for help.

If I’m not saying ‘Hell Yeah!’ to something, then I say no.

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

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.

The purpose of money is to trade for things that make you happy. So if you can bypass money and get directly to the happy, you've saved a lot of trouble. And it makes others happier, too, when you organize your business around non-monetary things.

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