I don't think spending time in Ottawa is a good use of my time as the leader.

Here's how I think of my money - as soldiers - I send them out to war everyday. I want them to take prisoners and come home, so there's more of them.

Downturns are the best time to start businesses because you develop discipline that's very lean and mean in terms of how to spend money. And those habits serve you very well in good times.

You either make it illegal, in which case you support a huge underground economy or you tax it within the limits people can afford.

Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.