Going public is not a business plan.

One, I love the creativity. I love the ability to create a capital structure that is appropriate for a company, no matter what field it happens to be in.

It's one of the most important things at the end of the day, being able to say no to an investment.

And make sure that capital structure we have in place is the right capital structure. I think that's the reason that we've been successful.

I thought at the time that I wanted to go into institutional sales, selling stocks and bonds to institutions. In those days, which was the 1960s, the institutional salesman was making about $100,000 a year. I thought that was just an enormous amount of money.

A real entrepreneur is somebody who has no safety net underneath them.

You only have one thing to sell in life, and that's yourself.