Do what makes you happy. Keep it simple. Do the research. Work hard. Look ahead.

Without hustle, talent will only carry you so far.

I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.

We are living at the beginning of the humanization of business.

I do not believe that people want to work hard enough and they want to find the quick Twitter, SEO. Anybody who's obsessed with SEO has lost already, period. I believe that firmly.

Great marketing is all about telling your story in such a way that it compels people to buy what you are selling.

The reason I was able to grow my business was that every day, after producing 30 minutes of wine television, I spent 15 hours a day replying to every single person's e-mail and every single person's Twitter @ reply.