It gives you a reason to get up in the morning and to be able to sleep at night, no matter what you're facing at the moment.

Running a startup is like being punched in the face repeatedly, but working for a large company is like being waterboarded.

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Get on your feet or die.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Courage as an element of faith is the daring self-affirmation of one's own being in spite of the powers of "non-being" which are the heritage of everything finite.

There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

I cant tell someone that their dreams are impossible.

Only mediocrity is sure of itself, so take risks, and do what you really want to do.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.