A lot of times it's an asset to not know everything about everything... A lot of really great, innovative things have happened when people just didn't know it wasn't supposed to be 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.

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.

The hardest-working people don't work hard because they're disciplined. They work hard because working on an exciting problem is fun.

You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

You have to adopt a mindset that says, 'Okay, in three months, I'll need to know all this stuff, and then in six months there's going to be a whole other set of things to know - again in a year, in five years.' The tools will change, the knowledge will change, the worries will change.

Reading a book about management isnt going to make you a good manager any more than a book about guitar will make you a good guitarist, but it can get you thinking about the most important concepts.