If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

Good grooming is integral, and impeccable style is a must. If you don't look the part, no one will want to give you time or money.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Success is waking up every day and doing what you want to do

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

I do today what people won't, so I achieve tomorrow what other people can't.

In my mind, there are too many copycat web products out there that are doing the same thing.

It takes the same energy to think small as it does to think big. So dream big and think bigger.

If you aren't living your dreams then you're living your fears.

Everyone has an idea, but it’s taking those first steps toward turning that idea into a reality that are always the toughest.

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman's diaries when I was twenty.

To guard our character with unwavering commitment, our best protection comes from being humbly aware of our vulnerability.

But I do not actually remember being a monster. I just remember wanting my own way.

Believing something existed and then finding out it didn't was like reaching the top of the stairs and thinking there was one more step.

The despotism of will in ideas is styled plan, project, character, obstinacy; its despotism in desires is called passion.

Sooner or later we all quote our mothers.

"Who's Heinz and what's an accordion?"

Everything is painful, so why not be honest about the pain?