I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on read more

I've experienced (more times than I like to admit) avoiding slightly uncomfortable conversations with others I should have had on the front end and then endured much more excruciating ones on the back end.

A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your read more

A base of support within your own community is expected. It's a lot easier to talk to people if your own local investors have shown confidence in you. It provides credibility as well as some reciprocity.

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women read more

I like letting people in on the process. When we did a speed-dating scene, we hired all these hilarious women ... and let them go off on Steve. ... If something's funny, I hate for it to just sit in a basement.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs

The outer conditions of a person's life will always be found to reflect their inner beliefs

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught read more

It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout -- not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.

His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long read more

His honesty and sanity were questioned. On his deathbed, he was a bitter person. Unfortunately, he didn't live quite long enough to see this rediscovery.

What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness read more

What the Fed is telling us here is that they are not of the mind to put so much tightness on the economy as to jeopardize modest growth in the year ahead, and the market is taking great delight in that.

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down read more

I wept as I remembered how often you and I had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky.