Your employees know each other better than they know 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.

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.

You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

Textbooks are not so much wrong as they are conventional – and an entrepreneurial idea must be contrarian.

You never have to suffer because of, or be denatured by, another person, even someone you love.

He sighed. "Does it get tiring?""What?""Always thinking you're right."I smiled. "No, not really. It's other people not realizing I'm right that gets tiring.

God's timing is always on time.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

The things that matter the most in this world, they can never be held in our hand.

The truth is that genetics has robbed me of hair. But it's not interesting to blame genetics.

I've never really understood that whole thing of writers avoiding other writers' novels while they're working on their own.

Think positive girl, or the world ends.