For the employee, the goal is to have full access to necessary information and as much independent decision-making ability as possible. For the entrepreneur, the goal is to grant as much information and independent decision-making ability to employees or contractors as possible.

I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.

Don’t follow a model that doesn't work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn't matter how good a cook you are.

The book is first and foremost something I made for myself.

Life is too short to be small.

The best entrepreneurs I've ever met are all good communicators. It's perhaps one of the very few unifying factors.

It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter—nothing can justify that sacrifice.