My mother said, "Money is a great slave but a horrible master." It was her version of a French proverb.

I'm a big advocate of financial intelligence.

Truth is the easiest thing to sell.

While good business ideas are plentiful, many entrepreneurs struggle to understand payroll taxes, health care and other thorny issues… In other words, they don't have the financial literacy to scale their businesses and attract investors.

You can make up your own opinion, but you can't make up your own facts, go sell.

Strategic partners are way more important than money.

Whether people know it or not, I'm a big nature guy. I like snowboarding, I like fishing, and those are my ways to wind down.