Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

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.

I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth.

Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything else that celestial source from which we all are come.

I dunno, around 11th grade, 12th grade I was just like "yeah. This is something I want to do". I was always known; I was always the rapper.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

the majority of critical, and plenty of uncritical, readers find quotations a bore.

Painful things are quickly forgotten.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

I love vintage and I shop vintage a lot because it's just such great value for money.

There's no such thing as life; or if there is, It is faster than the weather, faster than Any character. It is more than any scene: Of the guillotine or of any glamorous hanging.