Happiness is temporary and fleeting. ... Joy is the right goal.

An editor who is a mentor, advisor, and psychiatrist. Don't kid yourself-a good editor will make your book better.

When you’ve worked hard and done well and walked through that doorway of opportunity, you do not slam it shut behind you.

People are free or cheap. Marketing: using Twitter or blogs. Cheap or free. Infrastructure: call up Amazon, call up Rackspace, terabytes of data in the clouds, thousand dollars, two thousand dollars.

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

Best way to succeed is to do things for the customer, not to the competition. Very few people buy a product in order to help you hurt the competition. To think otherwise is lunacy.

If you start out to solely make money, you will attract the wrong kind of employees.