Every game, and almost every life situation, has short cuts: ways you can get better without learning the entire literature of the game from beginning to end.

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.

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

Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

In the business world, we can point to instances when a lack of integrity has bankrupted entire companies - in sectors as different as finance, telecommunications, manufacturing, and energy.

When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, 'When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't.'

We ought to be able to forgo the constant need to raise money and just focus on working together to solve the problems this country faces.