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"Having the ability to be brutally honest with yourself is the greatest challenge you face when creating a business model. Too often we oversell ourselves on the quality of the idea, service, or product. We don't provide an honest assessment of how we fit in the market, why customers will buy from us, and at what price."
"When you first start working for me, directly for me, I micromanage until I trust you."
"My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me"
"A sure sign of failure for a startup is when someone sends me logo-embroidered polo shirts. If your people are at shows and in public, it's okay to buy for your own employees, but if you really think people are going to wear your branded polo when they're out and about, you are mistaken and have no idea how to spend your money."
"Most people think money is the key to reducing risk. Prepartion is."
"The beauty of success, whether it’s finding the girl of your dreams, the right job or financial success, is that it doesn’t matter how many times you have failed, you only have to be right once."
"Business is the ultimate sport. In business, as in sport, the one thing you can control is effort."
"Video for the Internet has become a testing ground for mediums that actually have revenue."
"If you've got $25,000, $50,000, $100,000, you're better off paying off any debt you have because that's a guaranteed return."
"My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President."
"One problem people have is that they lie to themselves. Rarely is talent enough. You have to find ways to make yourself standout. You do so by playing to your strengths and making people aware of those strengths."
"Executives should blog if they have a vision they are trying to communicate, or if they are very visible in the media."
"Every kid thinks they have something special about themselves. Every adult thinks they have a big idea at some point in their life. Rather than pursue every thing they possibly can to prepare themselves to enable their idea or special talent, they tend to wing it and make excuses."
"Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business."
"If you're looking where everybody else is looking, you're looking in the wrong spot."
"I think the NFL is 10 years away from an implosion."
"Always look for the fool in the deal. If you don't find one, it's you."
"I think political people are afraid of me."
"As I would learn later in life, money makes you extremely handsome."
"If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family."