If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

I lived through the garbage. I might as well dine on the caviar.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

It has always seemed to me that the best symbol of common sense was a bridge.

Constraint theory defines for you what outcomes are possible and what outcomes are impossible. It also eliminates wishful thinking.

The thing you must really do in television is bring yourself to everything you do - you can't try to be anybody else.

Truth implies meaning.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything.

Problems in a company are like cockroaches in the kitchen. You will never find just one