“The most important things are actually the easiest to obtain: great friends, good food, and a decent bottle of wine.”

I am a big believer in the value of traveling while you are young. The experiences you have in other countries can inspire greatness.

When you incorporate giving into your business, you attract the most amazing partners.

A leader can create a company, but a community creates a movement.

When you incorporate giving into your business in an authentic and transparent way, your customers become your best marketers.

I surround myself with inspirational quotations.

Complicated lives and heaps of possessions don’t necessarily bring happiness; in fact, they can bring the opposite.

Vogue Magazine does something really interesting here: They make it look like I know exactly what I’m doing. Because Vogue made it look like I knew exactly what I’m doing, stores from all over started calling.

Make the most out of every single day you have on earth and be thankful for them.

When people start serving together, they forgot about all their stress, […] all their own problems. They start focusing on someone else’s.

When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something.

I did what I think a lot of entrepreneurs do. I started putting up a lot of ads on Craigslist for interns.

I don’t think college is for everyone. School is awesome, but for me, I was learning a lot more outside the classroom in the real world than I was in school.

Stories are the most primitive and purest form of communication.

If you organize your life around your passion, you can turn your passion into your story and then turn your story into something bigger – something that matters.

Giving does not just feel good, but it’s really, really good for business, and it’s good for your personal brand.

Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?