When you say you want money, you mean you do; when you say you don’t care about money, you mean you do; when you say you want to be innovative, you mean you want money — that’s the embarrassing art of connotation in business.

When great people fail, they keep moving forward while thinking; when others do, they stop to think about what great people would do.

Brave new world, which used to refer to Shakespeare’s and Huxley’s classic works, refers to adultery, incest, the mind of a psychopath or the puberal realization of the corporeal responses.

Not every idea can turn into a business, not all businesses are ever meant to be. Developing an idea is like having sex — exhausting but heavenly orgasmic; starting a business is like going through the pregancy — painful but full of expectation; running the company and surviving is like a dying old man staggering — every step could be your last.

The best way to know him is to know his enemies. The best way to love her is to love her soulful presence instead of her sensual body.

The worst way to judge one is to judge by one’s opinions.

The stupidly beautiful and the beautifully stupid are somehow a complementarily idiosyncratic match. People who are either, keep up! Those who are both, keep down!