When employees tell you about their good ideas for the business, don't limit your response to asking questions, taking notes and following up. If you can, ask those people to lead their projects and take responsibility for them. From those experiences, they will then have built the confidence to take on more and you can take a further step back.

Life can seem rather unreal at times. Alive and well and loving one day. No longer there the next.

If you are glass half empty type of person, maybe you just haven’t been holding the right glass

Realize that the people who are working with you, this is their life. You know, 80% of their time is spent at work. Make sure that they're proud of what they're doing, that they're enjoying what they're doing.

You only live once, and I just don’t want to waste a minute of my life.

I just wanted to create things that I could be proud of. Money was just an evil byproduct to pay the bills at the end of the year.

A business can be started with very little money.