In the movies, you want a good story and characters that are honest, but you are also looking for a good director who can lead the ship. That's how we look at business. Everybody has a great idea for a start-up, and so do their relatives, and they tell me, 'You gotta build it.' I say, 'I have to believe in it.'

I would say I'm 90 percent collaborative in everything I do, and 10 percent of the time I just make the call.

I'm from Iowa, we don't know what cool is!

When your wife calls, you have to take it, no matter what you're doing.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

Steve Jobs was a pretty complicated character and somewhat a psychologically complicated guy.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.