“Life does not start and stop at your convenience, you miserable piece of shit.”

“If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there's room to hear more subtle things - that's when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before. It's a discipline; you have to practice it.”

“You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.”

“No one gets to tell you what your life means!”

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”

“„Listen,” Richard says, „unless you're about to inherit some money, what we're talking about here is irreversible, fatal. You have fiscal Ebola, Matt. You are bleeding out through your nose and your mouth and your eye sockets, from your financial asshole.” See! Fiscal Ebola? My financial asshole is bleeding? This was exactly why I started poetfolio.com; there are money poets everywhere.”

“This is what happens when you live in dreams, he thought: you dream this and you dream that and you sleep right through your life.”