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

Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.

The key to high-quality communication is trust, and its hard to trust somebody that you dont know.

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?’

We human beings are born in ego, live in ego, are brought up in ego and will die in ego. We need a certain degree of vision when we live in this world for achieving and attaining our goals in life.

I’ve never scored a goal in my life without getting a pass from someone else.

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there.

No I or individual is better than the team. I’ve scored no goals just on my own. Every goal I’ve ever scored has been because of someone else on my team, their excellence, their bravery.

Self-inquiry is the process and the goal also. ‘I am’ is the goal and the final reality. To hold to it with effort is self-inquiry. When spontaneous and natural it is realization.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

Tidying is just a tool, not the final destination. The true goal should be to establish the lifestyle you want most once your house has been put in order.

I don’t care who scores the goals, I’m going to leave my human beingness on the field!