I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

Imagine how foolish you'd look if, like one clever salesman who once pitched to me, you tried to license your product to a big industry player without knowing they just launched a competing product. With the right background research, he could have avoided that and other landmines - and so can you.

Until Americans feel that their core asset - their homes - are stabilized, they are not going to have the animal spirits and they will continue to have less buying power.

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

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

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

The definition of leadership is that you have to find great people and ask them to do extraordinary things. I've been doing that my whole life.