The bigger you get, the harder this gets because the more aggressive the people working for you are.

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.

Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.

If God is with you, it wouldn't matter anymore who is against you.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

However strange your style may seem to others, never mind, because it is your style!

Quinn would do anything for his son.

Gender is a social construct, but everyone likes to cuddle.

It almost made me long for the flying pig. --Percy

There's no longer a monolithic evil empire somewhere, spreading a different philosophy of life. That doesn't exist.

Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.

They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the world: where then could we look for reassurance of our identities?