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

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.

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

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

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.

And even as each one of you stands alone in God's knowledge, so must each one of you be alone in his knowledge of God and in his understanding of the earth.

She looks like the type that might freak out. It's something in the eyes, Frannie. It says if you shoot my sacred cows, I'll shoot yours.

Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.

Because everyone is the same distance from the sun. Does it really lessen the distance if you live on top of a skyscraper?

A rock star never gets old!

So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Sharon Stone. She is one of the most dedicated people I know, but also highly unedited.