Quotes from Jesse Itzler

Everything ends; you just have to figure out a way to push to the finish line.

No experience is necessary to push yourself past what you think you can do.

The concept of getting out of my routine, mixing it up, and pushing myself to live the grittiest life is something I try to incorporate every day.

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.

Almost all of my business flights are commercial, not private.

I ran a 100-mile marathon, and I was powered by coconut water.

The best gift you can give yourself is getting over the fear of embarrassment because then you're completely free to try anything.

It's better to set a big goal to try and then fail than to never set a goal in the first place.

Running has become so therapeutic for me because I block out all thoughts or get really crystal clear business ideas.

When I was 24, I realized I could never be one of the best rappers, but I knew I had some of the best ideas.

I guess you could say I'm a little crazy.

I'm creature of habit.

We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.

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.

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.

P Street in D.C. is one of the worst areas in the city. Some of the things I saw, the things I experienced, the things we came through, really gave me a whole new perspective on life.

Failure has never been a signal for me to quit; it's always been a sign for me to go down another path.

Any time I meet someone or learn about someone that's really interesting or inspiring to me or has a story that really resonates with me, I just cold call them, and I try to meet him or her.

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.

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.

I'm a New Yorker, man. I'm a Knicks fan.

At a young age, I realized that getting letters is exciting.

I'm an extremist. If I go to a sneaker store, I buy 20 pairs of sneakers, not one.

To me, the thing is, through good or bad, if you're a Knicks fan, you're down with the Knicks, and that's the bottom line.