Treat your customers like they own you. Because they do.

Those back-to-back experiences confirmed what I already knew: That I was a shitty-ass employee and I'd better start my own business.

Sales Cure All. Know how your company will make money and how you will actually make sales.

We can talk about republican or democratic approaches to the economy, but until you fix the student loan bubble - and that's where the real bubble is - and the tuition bubble, we don't have a chance. All this other stuff is shuffling deck-chairs on the Titanic.

It would have been easy to judge effort by how many hours a day passed while I was at work. That's the worst way to measure effort. Effort is measured by setting goals and getting results.

I'm the type that thinks if you don't learn from history, you're doomed to repeat it.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.