How early stage VCs decide where to invest. There are qualitative and high-level quantitative heuristics that VCs use to evaluate the prospects for an investment. What matters most to VCs is the ultimate size of the market opportunity a founder is going after. Big markets are good; small markets are bad.

Avoid get-rich-quick schemes. It is not hard to make money in the market. What is hard to avoid is the alluring temptation to throw your money away on short, get-rich-quick speculative binges.

The dreamers, those who misread the actual state of affairs and act upon their emotions, are often the source of the greatest mistakes in history—the wars that are not thought out, the disasters that are not foreseen.CLI

I can’t make you the smartest or the brightest, but it’s doable to be the most knowledgeable. It’s possible to gather more information than somebody else.

If you don’t believe it possible to climb high or achieve great things, your behavior will remain that of the average person.

Leaders foster collaboration by building trust and facilitating relationships.

Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they incomparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus.

If your behavior contradicts your values, your body knows, and you pay a price at a cellular level.

Be open to giving and receiving help from others when needed

We get fixated on the presence of our problems and lose our focus on the presence of God.