When you come from nothing, you're basically just trying to get escape velocity, which means you and your family don't have to worry about being broke and that's all I ever cared about.

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.

Happier than a bird with a french fry.

It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you.

Sadly, embryonic stem cell research is completely legal in this country and has been going on at universities and research facilities for years.

There's a thin, blurry line between humor and tragedy.

The purpose of our lives is to give birth to the best that is in us. It is only through our own personal awakening that the world can be awakened. We cannot give what we do not have.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.

When fear replaces faith, remember prayer.

Una Salus Victis Nullam Sperare Salutem - (Latin - written 19 BC) The only hope for the doomed, is no hope at all.

I almost die for food, and let me have it!