What is great about entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs create the tangible from the intangible.
You can never be satisfied as an entrepreneur, and the basis of any successful, growing business is new clients.
Oh, I'm all about small business. I think what we've learned from big business and big Wall Street is that unchecked greed and the creation of false value gets us all in trouble. If we look at the American economy, who's really creating value? It's the small businesses.
I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else.
When I sold my first business, I wanted to do something nice for my dad. I wanted to give my parents a bunch of money, but they wouldn't take anything from me. They were so happy for me; they felt they didn't need money.
People ask, 'Are entrepreneurs born, or are they made?' I think it's a combination of both.
The idea of getting a lifetime job, and making $100,000 a year, with benefits, is dead and gone. It's over. And it may never come again. That's a very scary thought for a lot of people.