A leader is the one who climbs the tallest tree, surveys the entire situation, and yells, ‘Wrong jungle!

Some people live joyfully day by day. Their daily actions are aligned with their ultimate commitments. They have given themselves away, united and wholeheartedly.

Love starts as a focusing of attention. The opposite of love is not hate; it’s indifference.

Cash is undoubtedly king in the startup world—and in the business world more generally.

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

After many bad experiences, I decided to scrap my commission-based sales compensation system and move to paying salespeople a salary plus an annual bonus, with raises based half on their individual performance and half on the performance of the company as a whole.

The economy works better for some people than others. Success isn’t as meritocratic as it used to be and, when success is granted, it’s rewarded with higher gains than in previous eras.

The true investor . . . will do better if he forgets about the stock market and pays attention to his dividend returns and to the operating results of his companies.

The board of directors is the most powerful element of a company’s management structure and almost always has the power to fire the CEO.

Dream Big. Start small. Act now.