You can take somebody's job, you have to take their job, but you don't have to take their dignity.

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.

What happened when we died? How were we to know that death wasn't as profound an adventure as life was?

Elizabeth’s tears had wrung my heart: I longed to enfold her in my arms, to comfort her, but I knewit would be infamous indeed to take such advantage of her distress.

They love him most for the enemies that he has made.

True humility is not in the absence of confidence but strength restrained.

We look at a painting to know the painter; it's his company we are after, not his skill.

Whatever liberates our spirit, without also giving us mastery over ourselves, is destructive.

Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginning of the world, that such as are in the institution wish to get out, and such as are out wish to get in?

Kindness is the connection that links us all together and strengthens the bonds within our communities, neighborhoods, and families.

I sit before flowers 
hoping they will train me in the art 
of opening up

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.