Sometimes an organization doesn’t need a solution; it just needs clarity.

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.

Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

I feel like I just want to enjoy life and spend time with my daughter who is about to turn two, which is full-time job and the hardest job I've ever had in my life.

Paul Scholes. The best! Great player, person, friend!

I've never seen so much suicide...The Bible is full of hope.

I had hoped you would protest, but please don't argue.

Flirtation and coquetry are so nearly allied as to be identical; both are the art of successful and pleasing deception.

It takes confidence and guts to intentionally create tension.

A good name is better than precious ointment.

Using quotations was at first quite spontaneous for me, but then this use became strengthened through reflection. But originally this practice came out of temperament.

No man would, I think, exchange his existence with any other man, however fortunate. We had as lief not be, as not be ourselves.