Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

You know what the difference between a vision and a hallucination is? They call it a vision when other people can see it.

In my experience as CEO, I found that the most important decisions tested my courage far more than my intelligence.

The one thing with stress is, you've got to keep your focus on what you can do, not what happened to you.

You don't need every investor to believe that you can succeed. You only need one.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It's hard to memorize objectives, but it's easy to remember a story.

Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.

You're better off being The Beatles than The Monkees, as a startup.

If I liked food and disliked exercise as much as a 400 pound guy, I'd be a 400 pound guy.

Outside is like a house, under house understand it like hell there isn't any order... I still aks my self how people like Monk survive out there??

A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.

Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

Music is so important. It changes thinking, it influences everybody, whether they know it or not. Music knows no boundary lines.

It's really all about your training. Whatever you train for, you'll be ready for.

I try to stay clear of karaoke because it normally involves an excess amount of drinking.

I feel excited about getting older as an actress, too. I think there are some amazing opportunities around the corner and I don't need to hold on to myself or who I was when I was 25.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.