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Who you hire is really how you build a unicorn company.

Go make as many friends as you can, especially with the smartest people because those are going to be your future co-founders, your future investors, your future hires, etc...

If you are in college, there's nowhere else in your lifetime where you're going to be around a dense population of people of a similar intelligence level that all want to make friends.

AI is the greatest opportunity in our lifetime right now. There are so many untouched industries that can be made a thousand times more efficient with AI - and when you can change the P&L of a business, you have a unicorn.

Why are there depressed billionaires?

A lot of billionaires try to find happiness through material possessions. That's not fulfilling as a life.

To become a billionaire, you have to be absolutely crazy.

To be a billionaire, you have to be arrogant enough to believe you can become one - and have a relentless belief that you can do it, taking risks that other people aren't willing to take.

But time is best spent adding fuel to the fire!

Double down on what works. A lot of people say 'this kind of works, let's move on to the next thing.' But time is best spent adding fuel to the fire.

Your network is really your net worth.

We don't know how much time we have left!

We know how much money we have in our bank, but we don't know how much time we have left.

It's later than you think!

Live your best life. Life is short. It is precious. It's later than you think. Most people are alive but they don't really live.

There's no reason to go house broke!

Don't buy something that you can't afford to pay for. It's going to cause you to sweat. There's no reason to go house broke.

Be willing to put blood, sweat, and tears!

Invest in yourself. Invest in your dreams. If you have a dream, go for it - but be willing to put blood, sweat, and tears into it.

Stop wasting money on the fancy shoes!

Save money and invest in yourself. Nobody talks about saving money anymore. Stop wasting money on the fancy shoes. I didn't by the fancy shoes. I didn't buy the cars. I didn't buy all the stuff. We did not ever even buy a house. I didn't even have a ring from my husband at the time until we could afford to have that same amount of money in the bank. So, we saved.

Ideas are great but you got to execute.

Ideas are cheap, execution is everything.

I believe in massive action. Everything else would be too slow.

This makes me first to the finish line!

What everybody else is procrastinating, I'm going to do before everybody else, which makes me first to the finish line.

That's what a great leader does first!

I do the hardest things first. I think that's what a great leader does.

When I don't know what to do...

When you don't know what to do - do nothing. So many people react to situations. If I don't know what to do, I take my time and I'll let you know when I'm ready. Don't make desperate decisions.

Why do most business owners fail?

Most people quit before they hit success. It gets tough and they throw in the towel — rather than tying a knot at the end of the rope and holding on. Because success is generally right around the corner when people are getting ready to throw in the towel.

Do you think everybody is built for entrepreneurship?

I think everybody has what it takes. Not everybody's willing to do the work.

We really believed that one day people would shop online, and we banked on it.

You have to be willing to walk away. I've walked away so many times and came back a year later when they called me and said, 'We can give it to you at the price you want'.