If you can raise money, you're never going to have trouble getting a job.

It's almost impossible to have fun playing ping pong with someone who doesn't care, won't try or isn't any good.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

Nine years of experience is very different from one year of experience, nine times.

Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

Human beings, thanks to culture and genetics, are inclined to be pessimistic, fearful, skeptical and believers in conspiracy theories. We also don't like change.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.