My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

One of the key problems of the business world is that greed has become culturally acceptable.

I believe in businesses where you engage in creative thinking, and where you form some of your deepest relationships. If it isn't about the production of the human spirit, we are in big trouble.

the function of wealth is not to accumulate it but to give it away as productively and responsibly as you can.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

Consumers have not been told effectively enough that they have huge power and that purchasing and shopping involve a moral choice.

I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.