I think people don't like when you're not confident about what you're pitching, and they don't want to invest in you or get behind you.

Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

As an entrepreneur, you can always find a solution if you try hard enough.

Entrepreneurs: The only people who work 80 hour weeks to avoid working 40 hour weeks.

Entrepreneurs are willing to work 80 hours a week to avoid working 40 hours a week.

A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

Entrepreneurship is the way we take control of our lives in a tough economy.

You can make anything happen if you put your mind to it.

The big thing for me is, I never think about myself as a female in business. I'm a person in business.

Your success will have everything to do with how you perceive yourself, because how you perceive yourself is how others will perceive you, too.

If your home environment is good and peaceful and easy, your life is better and easier.

The Devil needs a very good lawyer to prove that it is not the Satan but the people themselves who have committed so many evils!

Centuries-old wounds are still raw because they never healed right in the first place. Here is the essential truth. We are better together than we are apart.

I love many kinds of music: world music, jazz, classical, pop.

Only in high school when I began programming computers, did I become interested in tech and start-ups, which led me to attend Stanford and major in Computer Science.

Acquaintances represent a source of social power, and the more acquaintances you have the more powerful you are.

I grew up watching MTV, when Journey was huge, when Pat Benatar had 'Love Is a Battlefield,' and my friends and I used to cut school to watch this woman in the video. We loved Pat Benatar.

Today, the army only occupies the territory once the war is over.

You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

Where the army is, prices are high; when prices rise the wealth of the people is exhausted.

I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.