You become the average of the five people you hang out with.

You're not going to become a great manager overnight. You're not going to become a great public speaker or figure out how to raise money. These are the things you want to start the clock on as early as possible.

If you have a dream, you can spend a lifetime studying, planning, and getting ready for it. What you should be doing is getting started.

One misconception is that entrepreneurs love risk. Actually, we all want things to go as we expect. What you need is a blind optimism and a tolerance for uncertainty.

Learn early, learn often.

You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.