I grew up in a working class family where there was no health insurance. I saw first hand the fracturing of the American dream and the bitterness that comes when there is no hope and a lot of despair. So I wanted to build the company, in a sense, that my father never got a chance to work for.

Any business today that embraces the status quo as an operating principle is going to be on a death march.

Authentic brands don't emerge from marketing cubicles or advertising agencies. They emanate from everything the company does.

In life, you can blame a lot of people and you can wallow in self-pity or you can pick yourself up and say listen, I have to be responsible for myself.

Managing and navigating through a financial crisis is no fun at all.

Sometimes the difference between winning and losing is will. The will to make it happen.

We are witnessing a seismic change in consumer behavior. That change is being brought about by technology and the access people have to information.