If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

We romanticize entrepreneurshi p so much that people don't do the work. It's not just a dream, not just a goal; it's a lot of hard work. A lot of people are wantrepreneurs, not entrepreneurs.

Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media.

To retire by the age of 35 was my goal. I wasn't sure how I was going to get there though. I knew I would end up owning my own business someday, so I figured my challenge was to learn as much as anyone about all businesses. I believed that every job I took was really me getting paid to learn about a new industry. I spent as much time as I could, learning and reading everything about business I could get my hands on. I used to go into the library for hours and hours reading business books and magazines.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.

I never look at the glass as half empty or half full. I look to see who is pouring the water and deal with them.