QUOTES

The fewer constraints that you give someone, the more freedom they have to solve the problem, and the more freedom they have to surprise you with the solution.

You don't want to be rigid in your thinking. You want to be open-minded, you want to be flexible, you want to be scientific about it. If new evidence comes along that disproves your theory, then modify your theory.

You cannot give up.

The most interesting people are the most interested.

Never, never give up. Just carry on and don't worry about what other people are saying.

Most people are so afraid of putting themselves out there and suffering the negative outcome that they won't get their hopes up. They will actually keep their sights much lower. But entrepreneurs, they start a company and they're like, 'Of course I'm going to be successful. I'm going to tell everyone. I'm going to go raise money. I'm going to put my reputation on the line, and I'm going to be forced to perform.'

You're taking in tons and tons of information, and opinions, and beliefs, and data. As much as possible. Then you've got to kind of just ignore all that. Just go inside and say, 'This is what I want to do.' You've got to make the call. That's what a CEO does.

The more frame of reference you have, the more prepared you are to make difficult decisions because you've seen outcomes.

In order to get anywhere, you've got to lose a lot. Losing feels way worse than winning feels good, but not by enough that it makes me want to stop trying.

You want to interact with people who you respect, and you want to be picking their brain all the time.