It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.
— Jesse Itzler
Routines can be a rut.
It is so cool to live with inspiration.
You can learn a lot when you're around people that are completely different than yourself.
Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path.
Time is the most precious resource there is - you have to protect it.
I do a workout every morning in which I purposefully try to make myself uncomfortable. It sets me up for the rest of the day by reminding me that I can choose to be OK in the midst of tough challenges.
I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.
I was networking every day from 21 to 28 years old. I sent 10 letters a day, which means I reached out to 3,000 people in a year.
In the late 1990s, I was a guest on a private plane. By the time my partners and I got off the flight, we knew we had to figure out how to fly privately more often.
If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.
I got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.
One thing I thought of, I call it By Sea, By Land, By Foot. It'd be a 100-mile paddle, a 100-mile run, and a 100-mile bike, back-to-back-to-back. But I don't want to end up in the hospital.
I don't remember anything from college.
The answer is that I do want to climb Everest, but I don't want to go to Everest. I don't want to be cold. I can't take the time. It's just not practical.
If I had done 'Go, New York, Go' for the Spurs, it might not have worked. It really taught me a lot about demographics and tastes and styles. I never went to business school, so that whole experience was my crash course in marketing, contracts, negotiations, and product launches.
I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don't even really need.
I take a freezing cold shower to start every day, and when I can't take it any more, I count 20 Mississippi's. Then I literally walk out of the shower and say, 'Let's go.'
We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.
I feel like I'd invested so much in the physical side of my life: running marathons - I brought a SEAL into my house - I have a trainer. But I've invested very little on the inner work, and in a world of distractions, I felt like to have the whole picture, I really had to spend a little time alone and work on being present.
So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.
I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.
I love diving into the unknown. That's been my M.O. ever since I was a kid.
I'm not crazy in my head. Maybe in everybody else's.
I am a big believer in PR.
I was a kiddie pool attendant, and I was a white rapper. That's not going to get you a job on Wall Street.
If you make your bed every morning, you will have accomplished the first task of the day. It will give you a small sense of pride, and it will encourage you to do another task and another and another. By the end of the day, that one task completed will have turned into many tasks completed.
Later on in my life, it became a big theme: just being okay and comfortable to take the risk and to have really thick skin and realize not everybody is going to love your product. Get over it, and if you believe in it, keep going forward.
No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.
I've run the U.S.A. Ultra Championships.
I like the concept of 'have your cake and eat it, too.'
Everyone likes to go to weddings.
Running has become so therapeutic for me because I block out all thoughts or get really crystal clear business ideas.
I continue to look for opportunities to learn on a daily basis. I try not to settle into a routine, and I attempt things that challenge me.
I want to live with a monk... and the Rolling Stones.
My life is ready, fire, aim, and it is one of adventure.
As an entrepreneur, you are constantly playing in uncharted territory, and sometimes things don't work out. That doesn't mean you failed; it just means you may be off course.
I have always lived my life outside of the box. I find it to be way more fun there.
I used to delay doing stuff that I just didn't want to deal with - things like putting the garden hose away properly or doing the dishes right after dinner. Now I have this little voice in my head that says, 'I know you don't want to do this, but just do it anyway.' In other words, there's far less stuff that I put off until tomorrow.
I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.
Do everyday things in a new way to get the brain thinking in new ways.
At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.
When I graduated college, I remember all I really wanted was to make enough money to have a swimming pool, because I love to swim, to grow my own fruit. I wanted to have a little plot where I could grow my own oranges and make enough money where I could to take two weeks off a year. I figured if I had that, it was game over.
If I'm ordering power bars online, I'll order 480. Everything is times-10 in my life.
Anytime you take someone's money, that puts enormous pressure. But I think if you want the most reward, you have to take the most risk.
If you haven't done something yet, and you want to do it, start now!
I don't look at anything in my life as achievements. I look at them as experiences.
You know what I learned? Everything has a price.
In a bar, you never know what to expect. A place could be packed, but there might only be five girls there.
