1. Believe in the fact that if you focus, persist, and work hard you will succeed in building a corporation based on software.2. Data modeling3. Focus on people4. Smart people make their decisions based on real data5. The difference between dreams and reality: hard work and persistence. Because dreams are inherently not-reality, they are fantasy. On the contrary, reality is where you are today. Disrupting reality to reach your dreams is uncomfortable but necessary. To reach your dreams, you must leave your comfort zone. The edge of the comfort zone is where your dreams meet reality. By staying in your comfort zone, things stay the same. If you want things to change, you have to leave your comfort zone. If you don't do it on your own, other people will push you out of your comfort zone to get you to do what they want, and you begin to play a part in them working our their dreams. You must push out of your comfort zone in the direction you want, towards your dreams.