Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

Products are valued higher than services.

Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.

The idea that we need to “pay our dues” is a lie told to us by people who wanted our efforts and labor on the cheap.

The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.

Rejection-and the fear of rejection-is the biggest impediment we face to choosing ourselves.

The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.