The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort.

Sweat equity is the best startup capital.

I love to compete. I want to get out there and kick your ass in the business world. That is what inspires me.

Linking without permission is stealing. Period, end of story.

If you don't follow the stock market, you are missing some amazing drama.

I'm not the type to pat myself on the back and all that, but somebody has to be lucky, right? When I got to Dallas, I was struggling - sleeping on the floor with six guys in a three-bedroom apartment. I used to drive around, look at the big houses, and imagine what it would be like to live there and use that as motivation.

If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.