Don’t expect investors to be throwing millions on the table for you to go off and buy a bigger house, get a new car, party half the week away, and generally upgrade your lifestyle.

Most startups eventually pivot to adjust to what the market is telling them.

One of the best ways to attract capital is to outperform the competition.

Learning to embrace and savor rejection is one of the best things that entrepreneurs can do. Launching a startup is the time to find your ever-optimistic inner child again.

Ideas are meaningless without a masterful execution.

If you want to glide toward money, you have to make sure your message is clear as a bell, and you need to ensure that you have a unified team capable of communicating it.

Don’t give up on your dreams.

She hadn't been scared for herself, she'd been frightened for me.Good. Her A-class horror movie scream earlier had nearly put me in an early grave. When this was over, I could call us even.

The only chains you should wear in life are the chains of commitment.

In most movies there is a Prince Charming who rides up and saves the girl.

And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?

Sometimes, growing up, I tried to be very Latina; I would change my voice... experiment with my hair a lot, trying to figure out who I was in a primarily white school.

I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation.