Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur: an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don't support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.

Most people are not good people. In business, in art, in almost every 'world' I've been in, most people I've meet are pretty gray to black. It takes practice to be the person who is a source of compassion and honesty.

The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.

Worry will never solve tomorrow's problems. It will only take energy away from today.

The American Dream never really existed. It was a marketing scam.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

Every day, you reinvent yourself. You're always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward.