My advice is to stop trying to "network" in the traditional business sense, and instead just try to build up the number and depth of your friendships, where the friendship itself is its own reward. The more diverse your set of friendships are, the more likely you'll derive both personal and business benefits from your friendship later down the road. You won't know exactly what those benefits will be, but if your friendships are genuine, those benefits will magically appear 2-3 years later down the road.

Don't play games that you don't understand, even if you see lots of other people making money from them.

I made a list of the happiest periods of my life & I realized that none of them involve money.

Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.

Be true to yourself. If you follow that principle, a lot of decisions are actually pretty easy.

Good businesses generate missions to drive their profits. Great businesses generate profits to drive their missions.

You've gotta love the game. To become really good, you need to live it and sleep it.