I wouldn't be where I am now if I didn't fail ... a lot. The good, the bad, it's all part of the success equation.

Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

I create offbeat advice; I don't follow it. I rarely take third-party advice on my investments.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

In business, to be a success, you only have to be right once.

I love the competitive aspect of it [business]. It's like playing chess. Why do people play chess? Knowing the realm of moves? Even when you get to be a chess master, there are other chess masters you want to beat or outperform. And to me business is just a sport that I love to compete in; a continuous intellectual challenge that really motivates me.

I had been in the technology business for so long, I had seen the PC-bubble come and burst, I had seen the local area and wide area networking-bubble come and burst, it was no shock that the internet-bubble was going to burst.