Remember—boredom is the enemy, not some abstract "failure.

Massive elimination is the most important step and the most neglected step for entrepreneurs.

Rather than spend my life on data entry and typing, I also take photos on my iPhone of business cards, wine labels, menus, or anything I want to have searchable on-the-run.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.

There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.

Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.