The reality is: a founder is someone who deals with a ton of different headaches and no one is universally super powered.

The question is: how you cross uneven ground, how you assemble networks around you.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

The other reason why people don't take a stand, which is very true in this election, is looking at [Donald] Trump and fearing reprisal, fearing reprisal from someone who is seeking the highest, most powerful role in the land, who has had a history of doing everything from attacks, threats and lawsuits and who has a complete kind of vengeful, narcissistic behavior, which makes people legitimately worried, almost like a schoolyard bully, that if I step up, am I going to be targeted, too?

I am most heartened when I'm talking to a team when they're reasoning to each other.

During normal times or boom times, there are some parts of the business that are going to so well, that that can cover for weakness and other parts of the business. What happens during recessions, is you have less windfalls just helping you cover mistakes. You have to be more careful about not making mistakes.

Good ideas need good strategy to realize their potential.