Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation. Every layer of management you add is a speed bump on the road to the customer.
A leader who is afraid of failure will not take bold action. Bold action is what separates transformational leaders from managers.
The most dangerous thing in business is to be right for the wrong reasons — or to win the battle and lose the war.
I have never defined myself by a job title or a company name. I am a problem-solver. Companies just pay me to do that at scale.
When you double a company's revenue and people still call it a failure, you have to ask: what were they really measuring?
Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me. It forced me to answer a question I had been avoiding: what do I actually want to build?