You’ll learn that the key to a great book is editing-grindin g, buffing, and polishing-not writing.

The telephone operator has one of the biggest roles in creating your organization's image....indeed, many people may come into contact with no one except your operator.

Organizations are successful because of good implementation,not good business plans.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

An MBA is a great degree for career paths like investment banking, finance, consulting, and large companies. An MBA is not necessarily the right path for starting a tech company. You should be building a prototype, not getting an MBA in that case.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

At the end of my life, is it better to say that I empowered people to make great stuff, or that I died with a net worth of $10 billion? Obviously I'm picking the former, although I would not mind both.