In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.

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.

Pure love’ means that it never increases or decreases. If it does not decrease when you curse him and it does not increase when you give him garlands of flowers

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

The proper education of a man decides his welfare, but the interests of a whole family are secured by the correct education of a woman.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

I tend to prefer the smaller movies because they shoot more efficiently and so you're are able to maintain that momentum of the character a little more easily.

The time has come for someone to put his foot down, and that foot is me.

It's not like there's a law against flying." "Yes there is. The law of gravity.

I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.