Seeing what someone’s reading is like seeing the first derivative of their thinking.

I’ve always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.

I have a broad range of interests, so I’ll always be working on something.

Talk to people no one else is talking to. Who would have thought that giving a speech at a funeral at age 12 would introduce me to a man who would introduce me to my first business contact who would introduce me to several other important people in my life. That’s luck. That’s randomness.

I really focused on three things in high school – my company, basketball and my school work.

I’m just the smallest dot in a big map of human history.

I don’t want to be normal. I want to be something else.

The internet tends to make smart people smarter and dumb people dumber.

If you really understand something, you can: 1) explain it using a clear metaphor and 2) explain the strongest counter-argument to the idea.

If frequency with which you cite an education credential does not decrease over the course of your life, you’re not accomplishing very much.