You should have an investment thesis that essentially says why you think this is potentially a good idea.

The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be.

No matter how brilliant your mind or strategy, if you're playing a solo game, you'll always lose out to a team.

What is an entrepreneur? Someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down.

If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.

Ironically, in a changing world, playing it safe is one of the riskiest things you can do.

The entrepreneurial journey starts with jumping off a cliff and assembling an airplane on the way down.

Your network is the people who want to help you, and you want to help them, and that's really powerful.

A networker likes to meet people. I don't. I like accomplishing things in the world. You meet people when you want to accomplish something.

Silicon Valley is a mindset, not a location.

Everything in life has some risk, and what you have to actually learn to do is how to navigate it.

To declare the raw truth is to live in dominion

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.

It is the working man who is the happy man. It is the idle man who is the miserable man.

We must always be disturbed by the truth.

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

William F. Buckley, Jr. does not so much speak as exhale, but he exhales polysyllabically, and the results are remarkable.

It seems odd that we continue to worry about the reputations of men who are accused of sexual wrong-doings.

Too many companies are happy to have workers to dread working. They have the wrong attitude because they have the wrong leadership.

We all know the power of film; we all know there's almost nothing more powerful than to see people on film that look and talk like you, like we do.

There are four stages to marriage. First there's the affair, then there's the marriage, then children, and finally the fourth stage, without which you cannot know a woman, the divorce.