Business ends up being very dynamic and situational.

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.

It's a simple formula: do your best and somebody might like it.

When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

You want to make a guy comfortable enough to confess to murder.

None of us are really dumb and none of us are really smart. We're in the middle.

Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted person ever could.

I probably went to musique concrete concerts - though not the very first ones - at the beginning of the 50s.

Is it to be thought unreasonable that the people, in atonement for wrongs of a century, demand the vengeance of a single day?

I'm a big advocate of music being an honest representation of who you are as a person and your perspective.

You have to be able to look back at your life and say, "Yeah, that was fun."

My thinking brain never stops my creative brain never stops so they wrestle a lot and get in fights sometimes they fight in the night and keep me up.