The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

If you can't embrace both failure or the possibility of failure, or the tremendous fear of failure, you can't be wildly successful. It's just an axiomatic truth.

The failure-dichotomy principle: failure is good. Failure is not an option. Balance those in your brain.

You know you're doing what you love when Sunday nights feel the same as Friday nights.

The best bosses understand the people working for them. That's the first component: what makes my people tick? What are they in it for?

The greatest business icons-it's not that they were worth hundreds of millions, or billions or trillions of dollars, it's that they moved society forward.

My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.