Simplicity Requires Ruthlessness.

What You Do Is Infinitely More Important Than How You Do It.

For The Employee, The Goal Is To Have Full Access To Necessary Information And As Much Independent Decision-making Ability As Possible. For The Entrepreneur, The Goal Is To Grant As Much Information And Independent Decision-making Ability To Employees Or Contractors As Possible.

People Are Fond Of Using The Its Not What You Know, Its Who You Know Adage As An Excuse For Inaction, As If All Successful People Are Born With Powerful Friends. Nonsense.

I've Seen The Promised Land, And There Is Good News. You Can Have It All.

I'm Not Averse To Making A Lot Of Money. But Where Does That End? I Hang Out With People With Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars. Is That The Standard By Which I Should Measure Myself? Where Does That Take You If You're In My Business? I Think It Takes You To Pretty Dark, Corrupt Places.