Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.

You can't rush the miles. No matter how fast I run, the five miles isn't going to be done in the first five minutes.

The best way to get past doubt and inexperience is simply action.

I don't look at failure as death, I don't look at failure as finality. I just look at it and pick myself up and say 'we shouldn't have done that' and move on.

Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.

A goal without a deadline is just a dream.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.