Most startup failures result from entrepreneurs who are better at making excuses than products.

Security doesn’t rob ambition; the illusion of security robs ambition.

But while my inner voice was clearly telling me I was at my core an entrepreneur, it’s inconvenient to decide at twenty-three that you can’t really work for other people.

You have to be so disciplined that even your distractions become focused.

Many skills, as every successful entrepreneur knows, cannot be taught in school. They require doing. Sometimes a life of doing. And where money-making is concerned, nothing compresses the time frame needed to leap from my-shit-just-sits-there-until-it-rains...

Entrepreneurs pay the price of a road less traveled, while everyone else takes the freeway and perpetually misses their own exit.