A long list. From getting cut from the high school basketball team, to getting fired from jobs, getting credit cards rejected and cut up. Rejection has only been a distraction, not a roadblock. “Every no gets me closer to a yes,” was the saying I used to use.

If I see a black kid in a hoodie and it's late at night, I'm walking to the other side of the street. And if on that side of the street, there's a guy that has tattoos all over his face, white guy, bald head, tattoos everywhere, I'm walking back to the other side of the street, and the list goes on of stereotypes that we all live up to and are fearful of.

While some people might find it distasteful to pay taxes, I don't. I find it patriotic.

YouTube has gotten so big that you're not a standard unless YouTube adopts you. And that's a big fight.

Do the work. Out-work. Out-think. Out-sell your expectations. There are no shortcuts.

It doesn't matter how many times you fail. You only have to be right once and then everyone can tell you that you are an overnight success.

You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.