Breakthrough ideas usually come from guys who look like they're hallucinating

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.

Emptiness is this world’s greatest discovery. Who has chosen this kind world for us and why?

Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments.

The death penalty is being applied in the United States as a fatal lottery.

The lovers of life, they are children at heart always in their wonder and delight, but they do not grab.

Rick Steiner is so stupid, it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.

Nothing is more damaging to the truth than an old error.

With practice the craft will come almost of itself, in spite of you and all the more easitly if you think of something besides technique.

In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away.

Character is fate.

Love is the ability to discover similarities in the dis-similar. The audience has a right not to be fooled - even if it insists on being fooled.