10. Money breaks families apart and keeps families safe and secure. Money builds reputations and destroys people.
9. My desire for more money trumped my values which are based in my beliefs.
8. Startups which become a part of today’s incubators and accelerators are often conditioned to raise money and not make money.
7. The only things I value from all my mom and dad left behind are their letters. Everything else is just “stuff.”
6. When the money is leaving the building faster than investors expect revenue to grow, tensions rise.
5. Golden handcuffs are made of fool’s gold.
4. There is a time to start a business, and there is a time to sell a business. When someone is interested in buying your business, when they approach you and have real money, there is no better time to sell.
3. Chasing quick money is the fast way to lose money that took a long time to make.
2. The people with the interest and talent to make the money don’t have the time to give it away intelligently.
1. Continually practicing the right basic in each area of my life makes me a better man. In family, it’s presence. In faith, it’s prayer. In business, it’s profit.