“Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand.”

It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.

You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.

Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.

As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every 2 hours and cried.

Don’t punk out and don’t quit.

Over the last ten years, technological advances have dramatically lowered the financial bar for starting a new company, but the courage bar for building a great company remains as high as it has ever been.

Leadership is hard to train on.

The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.

A key thing in being a leader is you’ve got to pause yourself.

I emphasize to C.E.O.s, you have to have a story in the minds of the employees. It’s hard to memorize objectives, but it’s easy to remember a story.

Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.

Groupon looked like a very high valuation, but any investment in a great company at any stage is almost always a good investment.

Planning is valuable, tho the plan is usually useless.

When raising money, you want to look through the lens of ‘What happens when things go wrong?’

Your employees know each other better than they know you.

The person they’re working with, is going to be the person they’ll know more. So if that person leaves, they’re going to go – well, should have I left too? What did they get and how does that compare to my deal.

It is thus more potent, as well as more economical, to disarm the enemy than to attempt his destruction by hard fighting … A strategist should think in terms of paralysing, not of killing.

Saving our planet, lifting people out of poverty, advancing economic growth – these are one and the same fight.

Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth.

Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.

We are led by the least among us – the least intelligent, the least noble, the least visionary. We are led by the least among us and we do not fight back against the dehumanizing values that are handed down as control icons.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Fighting football, not serenity football – that is what I like.

The promise of America is one immigration policy for all who seek to enter our shores, whether they come from Mexico,