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

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.

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.

It turns out that is exactly what product strategy is all about—figuring out the right product is the innovator’s job, not the customer’s job.

when security is understood in too absolute a sense, the general striving for it, far from increasing the chances of freedom, becomes the gravestthreat to it.

What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us!

Social science affirms that a woman's place in society marks the level of civilization.

I feel as if I could trust my happiness to carry me; as if it had grown out of me like wings.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

Science strives for answers, but art is happy with a good question.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

No man ever became wise by chance.

I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

Once you go Kerry Washington, you can’t go back