Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.
I hate that word – “lucky.” It cheapens a lot of hard work. Living in Brooklyn in an apartment without any heat and paying for dinner at the bodega with dimes – I don’t think I felt myself lucky back then. Doing plays for 50 bucks and trying to be true to myself as an artist and turning down commercials where they wanted a leprechaun. Saying I was lucky negates the hard work I put in and spits on that guy who’s freezing his ass off back in Brooklyn. So I won’t say I’m lucky. I’m fortunate enough to find or attract very talented people. For some reason I found them, and they found me.
If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.
If you’re trying to create a company, it’s like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Being an entrepreneur is like eating glass and staring into the abyss of death.
I don’t create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.
You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success – or are they holding you back?
Don’t let your alarm clock be the only reason you wake up.
Be undeniably good. No marketing effort or social media buzzword can be a substitute for that.
When I'm old and dying, I plan to look back on my life and say, ‘Wow, that was an adventure,’ not, ‘Wow, I sure felt safe.’
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.
Don’t worry about failure; you only have to be right once.
Ideas are easy. Implementation is hard.
The way to get started is to quit talking and start doing.
I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.
Starting your own business is like riding a roller coaster. There are highs and lows and every turn you take is another twist. The lows are really low, but the highs can be really high. You have to be strong, keep your stomach tight, and ride along with the roller coaster that you started.
Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.
Nothing works better than just improving your product.
Timing, perseverance, and ten years of trying will eventually make you look like an overnight success.