Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort.

Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.

The NBA is never just a business. It's always business. It's always personal. All good businesses are personal. The best businesses are very personal.

A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money.

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once.