You say: "I'm a blue sky thinker." Investor thinks: "You have no business model, and you don't know how to ship."

Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.

Enchantment is the purest form of sales

If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.

The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.

Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.

Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.

Pursuing your passions makes you more interesting, and interesting people are enchanting.

Greatness is won, not awarded.

In giving presentations, use the 10/20/30 rule....use only 10 slides, take 20 minutes maximum, and use at least 30-point fonts.

Eat like a bird, poop like an elephant.

If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased".

Cruelty to animals can become violence to humans.

Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know."

Usually, a Range Rover would be beaten away from the lights by a diesel powered wheelbarrow.

When you see a white guy at three in the morning on your beat in an alley, you kind of - "What's this guy doing here?"

With Donald Trump, "what you see is just what you get." He is not trying to be politically correct - he doesn't care.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

You may exist in this world--but I exist too and I will not yield

On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.

I used to collect hockey cards. It was like Vegas at my school. You'd go to school with your box of cards, and at recess and lunchtime there were all these games we'd play.