The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

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.

No tiredness can destroy hope like death can, as the absolute fatigue of life.

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

Now I worry. If people ended up liking me, did I do the job wrong? So I decided they didn't end up liking me - they ended up being able to deal with me.

Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to reveal a social disaster.

The most fruitful areas for the growth of the sciences were those which had been neglected as a no-man's land between the various established fields.

You are not feeling empty because you don't have much money. You are feeling empty because you have not yet encountered your real self, you have not come to your authentic individuality.

Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.

There are the things that are out in the open and then there are the things that are hidden, and life has more to do, the real world has more to do with what is hidden, maybe. You think?

Everyone has to blame something for the way the world is.

Personal discipline, when it becomes a way of life in our personal, family, and career lives, will enable us to do some incredible things.