I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to click your bit.ly link or click your TweetMeme retweet every time.

Winelibrary.tv was about building personal brand equity. It was a business move. Now, it was totally surrounded by a passion for wine, but I very much gave a lot of thought to doing a sports-video blog instead.

The person who can dominate during rough times is the person who can dominate, period.

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.

Marketing just got hard.

It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love the most. That's always going to be the answer to the thing that you have the best shot at winning at.