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.

Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

When the lights come on inside of you, everyone in the world can see a little better.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

If we truly want to learn, we never learn when we are talking. We only learn when we are listening.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.