Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

It isn't enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.

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

An entrepreneur isn't someone who owns a business, it's someone who makes things happen.

The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That's a bittersweet ending.

People feel personally slighted if you don't respond to them in 30 seconds and treat email as instant messenger.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming and energy consuming. It is easier to raise $10,000,000 than it is $1,000,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.