The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.
Can't say no one makes money from Twitter now. The NBA does.
Only morons start a business on a loan?
I worked hard and smarter than most people in the businesses I have been in.
The number-one job of the hedge-fund manager is not to make sure that you can retire with a smile on your face - it's for him to retire with a smile on his face.
I'm a believer that you accomplish much, much more with direct relationships than by using an intermediary. And that cash you keep in the bank can be the difference between staying alive as a small business, or not.