If you pour your heart into your work, or into any worthy enterprise, you can achieve dreams others may think impossible.

I really believe that you cannot use the stock market as a proxy for the economy.

Don't be threatened by people smarter than you.

My biggest concern is that America is drifting towards mediocrity and that people don't recognize - and by people I'm meaning Washington - don't recognize the sense of urgency and the fact that I don't think this is a crisis anymore. I think it's an emergency.

I think if you're an entrepreneur, you've got to dream big - and then dream bigger.

My parents really wanted me to get out of New York, be exposed to other people, other ways of life.

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you could possibly imagine as a young kid.