If you can't get an intro to a VC, hang up your cleats now. You're done, GAME OVER

Being an entrepreneur is sexy... for those who haven't done it. In reality it's gritty, tough work where you will be filled with self doubt. Entrepreneurs are survivors.

Individuals don't build great companies, teams do.

I usually tell people that everything I learned about being an entrepreneur I learned by f'ing up at my first company.

Persistence, persistence, persistence. I'm surprised how few entrepreneurs follow up.

In a strong wind, even turkeys can fly.

Good entrepreneurs have a chip on their shoulders. They are out to prove something.

The exception does not prove the rule.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

You can not control the thought, but you can control the tongue.

I have a present for you.” He raised his eye brows. “I don’t like your surprises.” “You’ll like this one. Close your eyes.

Look at Tottenham. You spend over £100-odd million, you'd expect to be challenging for the league.

We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.

There is something special about unions of husband and wife. Unless we bring men and women together, children will not have mothers and fathers.

Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

So I said to myself, "There but for the grace of God go I," only to realize I was looking in a mirror and had seriously overestimated the grace of God.

Technology without hate can be so beneficial for mankind, but in conjunction with hatred, it leads to disaster.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.