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I've never seen a guardrail I don't try to jump.

When we were starting CAA we didn't even have a lawyer. We were making hundreds of deals with no contracts, so people had to keep their word.

Salty just means that you take offense to the very idea of losing.

A much better way to run your life is just to concentrate on one thing at a time.

How do you have quality of life and work-life balance when you're starting a business? You don't. Flat out, you don't.

It'd be one thing if we tried and we gave it our all and we just weren't good enough. I'd be salty as hell, but it would be an outcome that I could live with. But if we felt like we could've gone for it all, we could've pushed harder, and we didn't — I don't think we would live with ourselves in that outcome.

We build on other people's ideas. An innovation is actually taking two or more things that were already well known and putting it together in a new way.

Don't try to be all things to all people or you're going to be nothing to anybody.

I like the action. I love meeting people. I love learning. I love being focused. I like to get into new things.

A franchisee is never going to run it like you do, because it's your baby, it's your thing, and they're not going to take it quite as personally.