If you can't sell your product, it's not a product-it's a hobby.

The currency of blogging is authenticity and trust.

Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market.

There is no luck, you work hard and study things intently. If you do that for long and hard enough you're successful.

No one remembers how you got there, only that you got there.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

People's reputations are made in the bad times more than the good times.

I get a lot of emails from entrepreneurs. The best ones are short, to the point and include some question and/or the product

Blogging is great, and I read blogs all day long. However, my goal is really to have a deep, meaningful discussion with people. For some reason, I'm able to accomplish this best via email.

Longevity is a big part of credibility.

If everybody has a voice, then you end up with something average.

Life is magical and blissful when we live to love the beauty of life.

Find someone who loves you more than you love them.

If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

As technology keeps improving, the price of oil keeps rising, and the ice keeps melting, Arctic energy is bound to be an increasingly bigger part of the global mix.

There's been a growing dissatisfaction and distrust with the conventional publishing industry, in that you tend to have a lot of formerly reputable imprints now owned by big conglomerates.

The most important job of an editor is simplify, simplify simplify, and that usually means omitting things.

I want to win. That's the most important thing.

If I could direct it [films] I would be very happy. But the economics of business don't always allow you to do what you want.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

Expectation is a statistical fiction, like having 2.5 children.