Facebook is for people, Twitter is for perspective, Google+ is for passion, LinkedIn is for pimping

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.

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Don't ask people to do something you wouldn't.

My real mantra for my life is "empower others".

Pursue joy, not happiness. This is probably the hardest lesson of all to learn. It probably seems to you that the goal in life is to be happy. Oh, you maybe have to sacrifice and study and work hard, but, by and large, happiness should be predictable.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.