Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do.

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur—or APE.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

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.

Steve [Jobs] proves that it's OK to be an asshole... He just has a different OS.

If you don't toot your own horn, don't complain that there's no music.

I think that no one, or very few, are born as good presenters. It's a skill that you learn.