If you use social media right, you will piss people off. It's actually recommended!

I learned how difficult it is to self-publish a book. It's complex, it's confusing, it's idiosyncratic.

It doesn't matter whether the Dow is 5000 or 50,000. If you're an entrepreneur, there is no bad time to start a company.

'Branding' has taken on too much of a role as a specialized craft performed by voodoo artists.

Here's what you should say [to an investor]: 'this is what my company does' It's that simple. What you're trying to do is get potential investors to fantasize about how your product or service will make a boatload of money. They can't fantasize if they don't know what you do.

Defy the crowd. The crowd isn’t always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.