In the end, it’s about what you want to be, not what you want to have. To have something

Business is as creative as the fine arts. You can be as unconventional, unique, and quirky as you want. A business is a reflection of the creator.

Success comes from persistently improving and inventing, not from persistently promoting what’s not working.

There’s a big difference between being self-employed and being a business owner. Being self-employed feels like freedom until you realize that if you take time off, your business crumbles. To be a true business owner, make it so that you could leave for a year, and when you came back, your business would be doing better than when you left.

If you find even the smallest way to make people smile, they’ll remember you more for that smile than for all your other fancy business-model stuff.

I had to make myself unnecessary to the running of my company.

is the real point.

For an idea to get big-big-big, it has to be useful. And being useful doesn’t need funding.

You have to just do whatever you love the most, or you’ll lose interest in the whole thing.