Be incredibly, ruthlessly selfish with your equity.

In a downturn, aggressive PR and communications strategy is key.

A tremendous chief executive in a small market will never be great. All great companies start with great markets.

Give me an entrepreneur with a lot of courage, gusto and who iterates rapidly, and I will back that person day in and day out.

Crystal-clear thinking is one of the things we look for - not a fancy slide pitch, but crystal-clear thinking.

I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

The venture industry is both quite vibrant and quite competitive.

Guys like me on the investor side are a dime a dozen.

All of the the books, the readings, the workshops, the ah-ha moments won't change your life unless you put actions behind them.

Oh, the quiet moments alone with God I sacrificed in order to cross a few things off the to-do list I worshiped.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

Food is a necessary component to life. People can live without Renoir, Mozart, Gaudi, Beckett, but they cannot live without food.

I am not being obtuse. You are being paranoid.

That's my big fear, and not enjoying things as much as I could and realizing actually how awesome life is right now.

Good advertising should give the reader essential facts about the product or company advertised and should do so engagingly without trickery or hogwash.

The best way to honor your dreams is to get them done!

One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes.