Quotes from Jesse Itzler

Running is my meditation.

Routines can be a rut.

In a bar, you never know what to expect. A place could be packed, but there might only be five girls there.

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'll be the first to admit that I'm not a good flier.

I have a crazy background in music, both as a performer and writer.

So many of us live our lives on autopilot. We wake up, go to work, have dinner, go to sleep... repeat.

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.

I like the concept of 'have your cake and eat it, too.'

I've found that eliminating not-so-important choices really frees up my mental capacity to think about the important ones.

I've run the U.S.A. Ultra Championships.

Everyone likes to go to weddings.

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 got a lot of great life lessons from the entertainment industry. The first was being able to feel comfortable taking risks.

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.

I realized that so much of our precious time is taken up by obligations that we don't even really need.

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.

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.

You know what I learned? Everything has a price.

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.

I don't look at anything in my life as achievements. I look at them as experiences.

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.

Time is the most precious resource there is - you have to protect it.