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

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.

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.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is armed robbery and theft becomes the order of the day.

I have no regrets because I did everything by the book.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

Photography was a license to go wherever I wanted and to do what I wanted to do.

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

Bars are meeting places and places to unwind. But at some point, what is culture unwinding from, and why can't they meet anywhere else?

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

Investment in AIDS will be repaid a thousand-fold in lives saved and communities held together.

When you're an only child, you get very used to pleasing the adults around you.

My worry is that opera will become an historic art form as opposed to a living, breathing thing.