Things that look like an 'overnight success' typically are not.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

A lack of knowledge about your life mission does not abolish the mission itself

I try to help developing junior chess. When I lived in USSR, I got a lot of free help from very good coaches - now I am trying to repay that debt.

Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!

The bustle in a house The morning after death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon earth,-- The sweeping up the heart, And putting love away We shall not want to use again Until eternity

'Adapt and overcome' is my new motto.

There is no such thing as collective guilt.

It isn't effective or productive to force your employees to do anything. Choice empowers people and makes for a more content workforce.

You never really shake depression and that's a tough road you have to deal with.

Assuming that just because you can hear you can listen is like assuming that just because you can see you can read.

Affectation is as necessary to the mind as dress is to the body.