There is no sale without the story; no knockout without the setup.

Love your family, work super hard, live your passion.

What's the ROI of your Mom?

A penguin cannot become a giraffe, so just be the best penguin you can be.

We only get to play this game one time, one life.

I attract a crowd, not because I'm an extrovert or I'm over the top or I'm oozing with charisma. It's because I care.

If you know exactly what you want to be, you need to spend as much time as possible with people who are actually that already.

The only differentiator in the game is your passion and your hustle.

Storytelling is by far the most underrated skill in business.

Look yourself in the mirror and ask yourself, what do I want to do everyday for the rest of my life. Do that!

You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them.

Sometimes the rules don't work. Sometimes the rules cause the anarchy.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

For this is wisdom: to live to take what fate or the Gods may give.

I imagine the ones we’ve lost as ghosts who prowl about the edges of the light, waiting for us to join them. Sometimes that’s terrifying, and sometimes it’s reassuring, a promise of homecoming.

If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world.

I am investing like a crazy person, mostly in internet start-ups. And I want to invest in Brazil as well, because I am Brazilian and that's in my heart.

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story being told, that's a technical refinement.

My father was the Formica King of Long Island, and my mother was the daughter of a Bengal Lancer in India.

Knowledge gives a wider choice and more anguish.