Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.

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.

Let me not fear pain

You can walk in a dream while you are awake: Just walk in the misty morning of a forest!

Think of a ballet dancer at the barre. Plie, eleve, battement tendu. She is practicing, because she knows that there is no difference between practice and art. The practice is the art.

My summer reading suggestion: Pick a really famous, really long novel.

I think twins can sometimes be shoved into the same mold and they can start to feel like they're not being given a chance to develop their own identities.

There's still so much more to do. I can't sit back and be complacent, and none of us should be. I get around now in a wheelchair, but I get around.

All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers.

I think that for the next short period of time, our No. 1 priority is Congress needs to do its work and extend the payroll tax cut.

A lot of hacking is playing with other people, you know, getting them to do strange things.

I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.