If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

You have to start with the basic premise that you need to know what your competition is doing.

The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.

The world is a big place. There are lots of smart people in it. Entrepreneurs are kidding themselves if they think they have any kind of monopoly on knowledge. And, sure as I'm a Macintosh user, on the same day that an entrepreneur tells this lie, the venture capitalist will have met with another company that's doing the same thing.

Evangelism is selling a dream.

How fast you are moving is more important than where you are.

There was no "decision" per se to re-position myself. I simply decided that I wanted to write a book that would help people influence others.