The evolving social and digital media platforms and highly innovative and relevant payment capabilities are causing seismic changes in consumer behavior and creating equally disruptive opportunities for business.

What I would say to young entrepreneurs is there's so many moments in your life where you have these dreams, and people are trying to protect you, and they say, perhaps, friends, family, parents sometimes, they don't agree with it, they think, 'This is just too high of a hurdle.' And I don't agree with that.

Don't buy preground coffee.

The hardest thing about being a leader is demonstrating or showing vulnerability. And that has a lot to do with trust.

In times of adversity and change, we really discover who we are and what we're made of.

Be bold, but be fair. Don't give in. If others around you have integrity, too, you can prevail

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies.