Don't start a company unless it's an obsession and something you love. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.

It's not in the dreaming, it's in the doing.

If given a choice between investing in someone who has read REWORK or has an MBA, I’m investing in REWORK every time. A must read for every entrepreneur.

Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.

The only thing in your control is effort. That's all, and that's everything.

I don't care what anyone says. Being rich is a good thing.

Doesn't matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

I'm the one guy who says don't force the stupid people to be quiet - I want to know who the morons are.

It takes time, it's a grind. There are no shortcuts. You've got to grind and grind.

We never solve the big questions

Happiness is self-connectedness.

Ignorance is degrading only when found in company with great riches.

A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!

When I was 18 the vision was to make music that didn't exist, because everything else was so unsatisfactory.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

In Italian, the word for novel is romanzo, "the romance." The English is "novel" - something new. Both of those elements, experimentation and love, are fundamental to the form.

The world is not yet exhausted: let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do...but I think you have to.

I'd rather go fishing for three years.