As a company grows, communication becomes its biggest challenge.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Resentments make even the best of us feel superior.

Part of our problem with debt is that we have confused needs with wants. Yesterday’s luxuries are today’s necessities.

You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.

My guess is (it will be) about 300 years until computers are as good as, say, your local reference library in search.

Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.

Strange but true: those who have loved God most have loved men least.