All I need as payment is a smile. That just really pushes me forward so that I'm always capturing the next opportunity to develop myself.

What I wanted was to be allowed to do the thing in the world that I did best - which I believed then and believe now is the greatest privilege there is. When I did that, success found me.

Once you find something you love to do, be the best at doing it.

I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen.

I love to brainstorm. I like to mentor. When you're starting out, especially as an entrepreneur, you really don't know what you're doing. You go out there and you try so many things. The key in the process, to me, is that you keep trying and you never give up.

Don't stop at the first no. You have to be a risk taker. If there weren't room for creativity, the patent office would close down.

What really fueled me, and maybe infuriated me, is that nobody believed in me. Nobody. I don't even think I believe in myself.