The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

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

There are no shortcuts. You have to work hard, and try to put yourself in a position where if luck strikes, you can see the opportunity and take advantage of it.

I was a beast in college. I worked hard and I played hard. I was relentless learning about business. I actually snuck into MBA classes my freshman and sophomore years. I wanted to challenge myself to see how I compared to the smartest kids at Indiana University so I was 18 and pretended I was an MBA student.

You've got to be very cognizant of the correlation between social media links and business because they don't always correlate as highly as people would like.

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

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.