It's not about money or connections. It's the willingness to outwork and outlearn everyone.

If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot.

Don't get caught up in how many hours you work. Judge success based on having goals and measuring your results. Hard work, and lots of it, is certainly needed, but focus on what you get done.

If you have managers reporting to managers in a startup, you will fail. Once you get beyond startup, if you have managers reporting to managers, you will create politics.

Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you.