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.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.

If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.

Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.