If you make money, you might not make meaning.

I want to know which idea you're going to kill yourself trying to make successful, not which ideas have crossed your idle mind.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them.

"(Big name research firm) says our market will be $50 billion in 2010." Every entrepreneur has a few slides about how the market potential for his segment is tens of billions. It doesn't matter if the product is bar mitzah planning software or 802.11 chip sets. Venture capitalists don't believe this type of forecast because it's the fifth one of this magnitude that they've heard that day. Entrepreneurs would do themselves a favor by simply removing any reference to market size estimates from consulting firms.

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

Create something, sell it, make it better, sell it some more and then create something that obsoletes what you used to make.