Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

If you don't have it here (pointing to the heart), it doesn't matter what you've got here (pointing at the head).

In motivating people, you've got to engage their minds and their hearts. It is good business to have an employee feel part of the entire effort… I motivate people, I hope by example - and perhaps by excitement, by having provocative ideas to make others feel involved.

Try to get as much intelligence as you can from your network on both the entrepreneurial process and the specifics of the business that you're thinking about. The network is not just the people you know -- it's who your network knows. Iterate constantly

Let's get this money by any means necessary