The right answer on raises is you have to be formal. You have to be formal to save your own culture.

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.

Ms. Fang is the nicest, sweetest teacher at Scary School. She only ate twelve kids last year.

As short as life is, your decisions and actions could still make it shorter. Always think about consequences before taking actions.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude!

You can’t coach guts and commitment.

Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.

People need service - great service where music is concerned.

Let nothing which can be treated by diet be treated by other means.

Armed conflict between nations is a nightmare to me; but if I were convinced that any nation had made up its mind to dominate the world by fear of its force, I should feel that it must be resisted.