Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.

A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.

But business is just a vehicle for transforming the ideas in your head into something real, something tangible, that actually improves the lives of others. To create something unique and beautiful and valuable is very hard. It’s very special to do. It doesn’t happen fast.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

It's in the valley of failure that we sow our seeds of success.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

I had ideas first, wealth second. It only worked in that order.