I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.

You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct.

People are not good at expressing their frustration. The best way to listen to the customer is through metrics.

I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.

I fundamentally believe that people have a genuine desire to be positively engaged in the world around them.

It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.

I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.

Profit per se is not my motive.

I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

People are doing amazing things right now on the Web.

Use your own experiences and pain points to identify an opportunity. Be arrogant thinking you can do it better than others.

Don’t be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

Your uniqueness is your trademark.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

Philadelphia is just the tip of the Pittsburgh.

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.

It gets on my nerves when women take too much time on makeup. You would think after a lifetime they would have the process down to less than 45 minutes!

Your business and results are a reflection of you. Your business and results will grow in direct proportion to your own growth.

I've always been an avid reader. Everyone in my family read a lot. Considering we were from a little town, we were pretty literate.

I covered the Lebanese civil war. I could see a place that had once been prosperous and now was impoverished. I'm not seeing that in America.

I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.