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.

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.

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 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.

The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.

Could we ever switch to this or any of the many other rational systems? Unlikely: tradition is difficult to overcome.

Your best authorial self is always one about to ruin the story.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Self-esteem is that deep-down inside the skin feeling you have of your own self-worth.

I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music.

With monochrome painting... the idiosyncrasy of the work, its difference, its expression, lies in shape.

Blindness has not been for me a total misfortune; it should not be seen in a pathetic way. It should be seen as a way of life: one of the styles of living.

I don't think I'm a great singer myself. I'm all right. I've worked with different writers, different producers... I've just been blessed with the caliber of people I've been able to work with.

Well, It's a Communist country, and the Communists do not reward personal initiative...except by execution.