Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Effective visions are lived in details, not broad strokes.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.

There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity

Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.

Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. ("Work should be more fun than fun" - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.