I'm not a character in any of my books.
The root of great companies is make meaning vs. make money.
Simple and to the point is always the best way to get your point across.
Entrepreneur is not a job title. It is a state of mind of people who want to alter the future.
The best reason to start an organization is to make meaning; to create a product or service to make the world a better place.
If you want to make a good first impression, smile at people. What does it cost to smile? Nothing. What does it cost not to smile? Everything, if not smiling prevents you from enchanting people.
Better to fail at doing the right thing than to succeed at doing the wrong thing.
The wisest thing in the world is to cry out before you are hurt. It is no good to cry out after you are hurt; especially after you are mortally hurt. People talk about the impatience of the populace; but sound historians know that most tyrannies have been possible because men moved too late. it is often essential to resist a tyranny before it exists.
What made Obama unique was that he was the ultimate charismatic politician -- the most unknown stranger ever to achieve the presidency in the United States. No one knew who he was, he came out of nowhere, he had this incredible persona that floated him above the fray, destroyed Hillary, took over the Democratic Party and became president. This is truly unprecedented: A young unknown with no history, no paper trail, no well-known associates, self-created.
Democrats—lily-livered, weasel-assed collaborators.
Every now and then, a person must do something simply because he wants to, because it seems to him worth doing. And that does not make it worthless or a waste of time.