Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people... or find a different room.

You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.

Don't spend so much time trying to choose the perfect opportunity, that you miss the right opportunity.

It's easy to decide what you're going to do. The hard thing is deciding what you're not going to do.

Ignore the people who tell you it won't work, and hire people who embrace your vision.

Regrets are born of paths never taken.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

Ideas are commodity. Execution of them is not.

Whether you've found your calling, or if you're still searching, passion should be the fire that drives your life's work.

Each day that you're moving toward your dreams without compromising who you are, you're winning

With the understanding that you will face tough times and amazing experiences, you must also commit to the adventure. Just have faith in the skills and the knowledge you've been blessed with and go.

There are more blessings in the book of your destiny than your negative thoughts and beliefs are suggesting.

A spoon does not know whether it enters a rich or poor man's mouth.

My parents used to do these little film festivals in our house where we'd watch all the Marx Brothers movies, or Chaplin movies, and a lot of westerns.

The social entrepreneurs are governments' best friends.

I feel like I'm ready for any dangerous situation that might come my way, provided I have a hammer on me.

Bad days, good days, ‘I’ll cut you if you look at me the wrong way’ days. I’ll take them all.

Novelty is always welcome but talking pictures are just a fad.

Its up to any government to decide how to react to the denial of basic human rights anywhere in the world, including Egypt.

Some people are passionate about aisles, others about window seats.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.