Patience is the art of concealing your impatience.

The companies that are successful, they start out to make meaning, not to make money.

I've always wanted to be a professional golfer. So what if you always wanted to be an entrepreneur?

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

High achievers tend to have major weaknesses. People without major weaknesses tend to be mediocre.

Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.

Klout and various measurements of influence are fun. I love to see where I score on them, but there's a computer algorithm behind the calculation. If there's an algorithm, it can be gamed. Even if it's not gameable, you have to take a leap of faith that the number of followers, retweets, mentions, whatever really mean something.