“In a company, hundreds of decisions get made, but objectives and goals are thin.”

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.

Intense, burning desire is the motivational force that enables you to overcome any obstacle and achieve almost any goal.

Lack of planning is the cause of most failures.

My goal is to remain healthy my entire career, and a healthy diet seems like a good start.

Your ability to discipline yourself to set clear goals, and then to work toward them every day, will do more to guarantee your success than any other single factor.

And all the voices, all the goals, all the yearnings, all the sorrows, all the pleasures, all the good and evil, all of them together was the world. All of them together was the stream of events, the music of life.

To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.

Most people know how to set goals; few know how to achieve them.

Money is not the goal. Money has no value. The value comes from the dreams money helps achieve.