I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

You can only make money doing what you love.

When I give away a book for free, it gets my name out there. That has lifelong value for me that goes way beyond the few dollars I could maybe charge.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.

Whether you're an entrepreneur, an employee, a student, a homemaker, a writer, it's time to start forgetting about all the ways the world has promised you safety and comfort.

Become a beacon of enhancement, and then, when the night is gray, all of the boats will move towards you, bringing their bountiful riches.

You can't make money without selling something real. You can't make something real without first imagination manifesting itself in your head. You can't have imagination without surrendering yourself to an idea that you want to create something of value to other human beings.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

Don't buy into the 20-hours-a-day entrepreneur myth. You need to sleep 8 hours a day to have a focused mind.

You'll have to hire people to expand your business. But it's a good discipline to really question if you need each and every hire.

I'm invested in about 13 private companies. I've advised probably another 50 private companies.

Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.

Ultimately, the best speakers are the ones who have put 10,000 hours into listening.

Poor speakers create an artificial divide between themselves and the audience. They feel they need to do this in order to establish their own credibility.

Do what you do with love, and success is a natural symptom.

I've had to change careers several times. Sometimes because my interests changed. Sometimes because all bridges have been burned beyond recognition, sometimes because I desperately needed money. And sometimes just because I hated everyone in my old career or they hated me.

Don't forget: when you start a website, it's not yet a trusted site. So you have to bring people from a trusted site to your site to build up the trust in your site.

Every successful business, even Google, Facebook, Twitter, started with a combination of manual improvements and friends of the founders using the site.

In every business I had ever started, even ones that had totally failed, I had kept good relations with the investors.

How great is it to just rest and be happy and not move when you don't have to.

We all have faith in something: usually a mixture of some personal beliefs with modern science. I am not like that. Mostly I just believe in what personally has worked for me.

I saw 'Star Wars' when I was seven years old, and it changed my life.