Make yourself happy and surround yourself with people who are cool with that.

Do what you say you are going to do, when you say you are going to do it, in the way you said you were going to do it.

Never build yourself up by tearing another down.

If you're selling information - and I have a lot of friends who write a lot of bestselling books and they're selling information. They don't need to have a picture on the cover at all because they are not important. They're secondary to their information. To me, the information is secondary to me.

No matter what I'm talking about, I can involve you into the story where you think it's you doing it. You're living it. I can remind you of things that went on in your life so you go, man I had that happen to me. I've been there. I've done that.

The right thing to do usually comes straight from your gut. When you work fast, you tend to work more from the gut, because your mind simply doesn't have as much time to justify an easier way to do things.

There are two things you will never be without: One is your reputation and the other is your credit rating.