There has to be something about your business that gets you excited. Otherwise, you probably wouldn't have spent your precious - irreplaceable - time on it.

The risks of speaking extemporaneously are apparent the first time you wing it and promptly put your foot in your mouth.

Growth-hacking is about scalability - ideally, you want your marketing efforts to bring in users, which then bring in more users.

One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious.

If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.

One of the ironies of being with someone you really love for a long time is becoming completely incapable of handling stressful or difficult things by yourself.