Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust... you pay folks to blog about a product and you compromise that. I would almost care about this, but it's so obvious to everyone that this is either a joke or an idiot that there is nothing more to say.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Average people push great people out of a company.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

Starting is easy. Finishing is hard.

The thing about angel investing, which I get into in the book a lot is, you actually don't have to understand the idea, you don't have to know if the idea is going to win, you just need to know if a founder's going to win in their life. I can just tell by looking at somebody if they'll be successful in their life. I don't even have to have a conversation. I just look at their eyes while they're talking and it becomes very clear to me.