Having good relations with lots of lots of different people helps a lot.

That economics and finance are often covered as technical subjects, sort of boring subjects, and either you already know a lot about it and you follow it, or you don't know much about it and you don't want to know.

When you're writing for the New York Times someone reading it knows the topic better than you do and knows when you've messed up.

I'm going to have a project-based life rather than a job-based life.

People who tend to invest are either going to invest in something where you're raising $5 million or they're going to invest in something where you're raising $1 million, but if you're trying to raise $2.5 million it's kind of a weird amount.

Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest.

People found it unusual to leave a job where you're the boss.